WHY, CELIA! should you so much strive, In vain you strive, in vain, alas! Your eyes, those emblems of the heart, 'TELL me, EUNESIA! prithee, tell! (For thou, I fancy, know'st me well!) Tell me, Why I, who was so gay (I laughed, I revelled, all the day!), Who life enjoyed, and feared not Fate, Why am I altered thus of late? Tasteless are grown my former joys! In crowds a solitude I find! While all my friends are joyous seen, From thought to thought for comfort fly; But none I find! Nothing can please! Books and acquaintance only tease! So restless is my soul, I own Life is itself a burthen grown! What means all this? Where can it end? Tell me, my Charmer and my friend!' 'What,' said EUNESIA, 'what means this? Are you so dull, you cannot guess? Fly, my AMINTOR! to my arms! (Where you've confessed a thousand charms!) Fly to my arms! You'll quickly find 'Tis absence only stings your mind! Fly to my arms! A kiss I'll give That shall your gaiety revive; And make you own, you wish to live!' THE MUTUAL SYMPTOMS. 'АH! who, in all those happy plains, A Youth beloved of all the Swains: I think he's free from artful wiles: He fondly looks at me, and smiles. 'He pressed my hand. I blushed and sighed; Yet hope he did not see! And then to speak he vainly tried; Methinks, this wary breast should know If COLIN feigned the sigh; Yet when he 's named, it flutters so! Say, gentle God! whose mighty laws Say rather, why this heart intreats And why it flutters! why it beats! THE END OF THE POPE ANTHOLOGY. FIRST LINES AND NOTES. Many of these Poems became immediately popular; and appeared in other contemporary All the Works herein quoted, were published in London; unless otherwise stated. A decent mien, an elegance of dress 207 A famous Assembly was Ah! gaze not on those eyes! C. COCKBURN. Works, 1751. .... 'Ah! who, in all those happy M. PRIOR. Poems, 1709. Belinda! see, from yonder flowers Beneath a myrtle's verdant shade Beneath some hoary mountain.... Pastorals, &c., 1748. From SAPPHO. A. POPE. Rape of the Lock, 5th Ed., Rosa- mond, 1707. Blest as th' immortal Gods is he .. 105 Nov. 22, 1711. The text is that of For Mrs. A. BEHN'S version, see But anxious cares the pensive 23 64 G. FARQUHAR. Beaux Stratagem At St. Osyth's, near the Mill 291 Sir C. H. WILLIAMS, K.B. Works, Come, let us now resolve at last.. 131 Cupid and Fortune long agreed Cupid and Venus jointly strove W. POPPLE. In Miscellaneous Poems, 'Cupid! instruct an am'rous W. WALSH. In J. DRYDEN'S Mis- |