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 editions than those here quoted, often with great variations in the texts. All the Works herein quoted, were published in London; unless otherwise stated. &c., 1727. 95 68 45 Rosa Belinda! see, from yonder flowers Beneath a myrtle's verdant shade Beneath some hoary mountain.... Blest as th' immortal Gods is he.. But anxious cares the pensive 105 23 300 74 79 253 M., Lady CHUDLEIGH. Poems, 1703. 145 171~ A silly Shepherd wooed; but wist 122 At night, by moonlight, on the plain 220 A trifling Song you shall hear Cease your funning!... J. GAY. The Beggar's Opera, 1728. Cease your music, gentle Swains! 107 A. PHILIPS. Pastorals, &c., 1748. Celia and I, the other day.. M. PRIOR. Poems, 1709. Close by those meads for ever 82 16 .... A. POPE. Rape of the Lock, 1st Ed., Come, gentle God of soft desire ! 131 201 Cupid and Fortune long agreed 258 Away! Let nought to Love.. 208 Cupid and Venus jointly strove 251 ANON. In Miscellaneous Poems, ed. by D. LEWIS, 1726. W. POPPLE. In Miscellaneous Poems, A wretch, long tortured with 121 'Cupid! instruct an am'rous 54 ANON. In Poetical Miscellanies, ed. by Sir R. STEELE, 1714. W. WALSH. In J. DRYDEN'S Mis- |