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The Third Chapter of the Wisdom of SOLOMON.
From the First to the Sixth Verse.
1 THUS sung the Man, for Wisdom long renown'd,
2 What mean these Tears and mournful Numbers round?
3 Is Death the Cause? Ah! then restrain your Tears,
4 That stubborn Monarch nor regard nor hears,
5 And the blest Shades for whom you vainly mourn,
6 To these dim Regions wou'd no more return,
[Page 53]7 Wrap'd in bright Visions they no Ills endure,
8 From Sin, from Danger, and from Death secure:
9 'Tis past. The parting Struggles are no more,
10 They now are landed on the blissful Shore,
11 Where no pale Fears nor sullen Sorrows dwell,
12 But Joys beyond what mortal Tongues can tell?
13 Where smiling Hope for ever blooms around,
14 And growing Pleasures that shall know no Bound.
15 When thoughtless Mortals by constraint attend
16 On the last Moments of their parting Friend,
17 See the chang'd Features wear a deathful Hue,
18 The Temples water'd with a fainting Dew,
19 The Limbs that tremble with convulsive Pain:
20 Then stand agast the ignorant and vain,
21 Who shiver at the seeming stern Decree;
22 But look no farther than their Eyes can see,
23 The happy Soul glides unobserv'd away
24 To Worlds of Glory and eternal Day.
25 The Pains and Sorrows which the Virtuous know,
26 Which long had bid the Tears in secret flow,
27 Shall not be lost nor bury'd in the Ground;
28 But serve to brighten their immortal Crown:
[Page 54]29 From that great Being they shall find their Pay,
30 Who blest the rising and the closing Day.
31 When the pure Spirit from its Prison flies,
32 How joy the Seraphs in their brighter Skies:
33 Around their Guest the shining Guards attend,
34 And heav'nly Harps with heav'nly Voices blend.
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Title (in Source Edition): The Third Chapter of the Wisdom of SOLOMON. From the First to the Sixth Verse.
Author: Mary Leapor
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Leapor, Mrs. (Mary), 1722-1746. Poems upon several occasions: By Mrs. Leapor of Brackley in Northamptonshire. London: printed: and sold by J. Roberts, 1748, pp. 52-54. 15,[5],282p. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T127827; Foxon p. 413; OTA K101776.000) (Page images digitized from a copy at University of California Libraries.)
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- The APPARITION. ()
- The BEAUTIES of the SPRING. ()
- CATHARINA's CAVE. ()
- CELADON to MIRA. ()
- The CHARMS of ANTHONY. ()
- COLINETTA. ()
- The CRUCIFIXION and RESURRECTION. An ODE. ()
- The CRUEL PARENT. A DREAM. ()
- DAMON and STREPHON. A Pastoral Complaint. ()
- DAVID'S Complaint, ii Samuel, chap. 1. ()
- The DEATH of ABEL. ()
- DORINDA at her Glass. ()
- The ENQUIRY. ()
- An EPISTLE to a LADY. ()
- An EPITAPH. ()
- An EPITAPH. ()
- ESSAY on FRIENDSHIP. ()
- ESSAY on HAPPINESS. ()
- An ESSAY on HOPE. ()
- The FALL of LUCIA. ()
- The FIELDS of MELANCHOLY and CHEARFULNESS. ()
- FLORIMELIA, the First PASTORAL. ()
- FLORIMELIA, the Second PASTORAL. ()
- The FOX and the HEN. A FABLE. ()
- The FRIEND in Disgrace. A DIALOGUE. ()
- The GENIUS in DISGUISE. ()
- The HEAD-ACH. To AURELIA. ()
- An HYMN to the MORNING. ()
- The INSPIR'D QUILL. Occasion'd by a Present of CROW-PENS. ()
- JOB'S CURSE, and his APPEAL. Taken out of Job, Chap. i, and xxxi. ()
- The LIBYAN HUNTER, a FABLE. Inscrib'd to the Memory of a late admir'd Author. ()
- The LINNET and the GOLDFINCH. ()
- MIRA to OCTAVIA. ()
- MIRA's WILL. ()
- The MISTAKEN LOVER. ()
- The MONTH of AUGUST. ()
- The MORAL VISION. ()
- An ODE on MERCY: In Imitation of Part of the 145th Psalm. ()
- On DISCONTENT. To STELLA. ()
- On Mr. POPE's Universal PRAYER. ()
- On SICKNESS. ()
- On the Death of a justly admir'd AUTHOR. ()
- On WINTER. ()
- The PENITENT. Occasion'd by the Author's being asked if she would take Ten Pounds for her Poems. ()
- The POWER of BEAUTY. ()
- A PRAYER for the YEAR, 1745. ()
- The Proclamation of APOLLO. ()
- The PROPOSAL. ()
- PROSERPINE'S RAGOUT. ()
- The QUESTION. Occasion'd by a serious Admonition. ()
- A REQUEST to the DIVINE BEING. ()
- The RIVAL BROTHERS. ()
- The SACRIFICE. An EPISTLE to CELIA. ()
- The SETTING SUN. To SILVIA. ()
- SILVIA and the BEE. ()
- SONG to CLOE, playing on her Spinet. ()
- SOTO. A CHARACTER. ()
- The SOW and the PEACOCK. A FABLE. ()
- STEPHON to CELIA. A modern LOVE-LETTER. ()
- A SUMMER'S WISH. ()
- The TALE of CUSHI. From II. Samuel, Chap. xviii. ()
- The TEMPLE of LOVE. ()
- The TEN-PENNY NAIL. ()
- To a Gentleman with a Manuscript Play. ()
- To ARTEMISIA. Dr. KING's Invitation to BELLVILL: Imitated. ()
- To GRAMMATICUS. ()
- The UNIVERSAL DREAM. ()
- The WAY of the WORLD. ()