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Poems on Several Occasions, Publ. by Mr. Pope
Poems on Several Occasions Publ by Mr Pope Author:Thomas Parnell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1726 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: A N ELEGY, 70 an Old Beauty. IN vain, poor Nymph, to pleafe our youthful fight You fleep in Cream and Frontlets all the Night, Your Face with Patches foil, with Paint repair, Drefs with gay Gowns, and fhade with foreign Hair. If Truth. in fpight of Manners muft be told, Why really Fifty-Five is fomething old. Once Once you were young; or one, whofe Life's fo long She might have born my Mother, tells me wrong. And once (fmce Envy's dead before you dye,) The Women own, you play'd a fparkling Eye, Taught the light Foot a modifh little Trip, And pouted with the prettieft purple Lip -- -- To fome new Charmer are the Rofes fled, Which blew, to damask all thy Cheek with red; Touth calls the Graces there to fix their Reign, And Airs by thoufands fill their eafy Train. So parting Summer bids her flow'ry Prime Attend the Sun to drefs fome foreign Clime, While with'ring Seafons in Succeffion, here, Strip the gay Gardens, and deform the Year. But thou (fmce Nature bids) the World refign, Tis now thy Daughter's Daughter's time to fhine. With more Addfefs, (or fuch as pleafes more) She runs her Female Exercifes o'er, Unfurls or clofes, raps or turns the Fan, And fmiles, or blufhes at the Creature Man. With quicker Life, as gilded Coaches pafs, In fideling Courtefy fhe drops the Glafs. With better Strength, on Vifit-days, fhe bears To mount her fifty Flights of ample Stairs. Her Mein, her Shape, her Temper, Eyes and Tongue Are fure to conquer. -- -- for the Rogue is young; And all that's madly wild, or oddly gay, We call it only pretty Fawty'swzy. Let Time, that makes you ho...« less