The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings: Poems and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Alexander Pope

Author:Alexander Pope
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780141946290
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-06-29T23:00:00+00:00

110 Where the tall Nothing stood, or seemed to stand;

A shapeless shade, it melted from his sight

Like forms in clouds, or visions of the night.

To seize his papers, Curll, was next thy care;

His papers light, fly diverse, tossed in air;

Songs, sonnets, epigrams the winds uplift,

And whisk ’em back to Evans, Young, and Swift.

Th’embroidered suit at least he deemed his prey;

That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.

No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit,

120 That once so fluttered, and that once so writ.

Heav’n rings with laughter; of the laughter vain,

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