 Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky...  The Works of the British Poets - الصفحة 121بواسطة Robert Anderson - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 1157عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...Kings shall know less joy than I. 405 O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 4io Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 1432
...kings shall know less joy than I. .405 0 friend! may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing sted; 135 Five scimitars wi' murd $;rusted ; A garter which a babe had reposing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...omnes, Fraternaeque dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines are thus pleasingly rendered :1 Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of expiring age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...Even the famous lines on Edith's last illness are not so much about her as about her son watching her: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the Cradle of reposing Age, With lenient Arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the Bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...when further extending the literary life of the man he most often claimed as his poetic father, Homer: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the Cradle of reposing Age, With lenient Arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the Bed of... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...frondée dans ce? quatres vers. •28. O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafmg melancholy mine ! Me, let the tender office long engage,...age* ; With lenient arts extend, a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And keep... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...fair Virtue ! welcome even the last ! O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Louise Barnett - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...himself in the role of the devoted son who exercises the maternal office for his own aging mother: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the Cradle of reposing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the Bed of... | |
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