...as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope would grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, "...

...easier dress. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament; Poor Pope would grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day; St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry,...

...wortuy friend, no poor relation ? So ready to do strangars good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood ! Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day .... My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Beceive the news...

...where he imagines the responses of his contemporaries, including his best friends, to his own death: Poor Pope will grieve a month; and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. (Poems 491 ) There are moments of nostalgia and stifled ambition in the poem, but hardly a hint of...

...libels born to die; Which Pope must bear, as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week; and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry,...

...Libels born to dye; Which POPE must bear, as well as I. 205 HERE shift the Scene, to represent How those I love, my Death lament. Poor POPE will grieve a Month; and GAY A Week; and ARBUTHNOTT a Day. All Fortitude of Mind supplies: 2 1 5 For how can stony Bowels melt, In those who...