...hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, IM Shall draw such envy as the lock you lost. For after...must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, 100 This lock the muse shall consecrate to fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. ELEGY...

...Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall...the lock you lost. For after all the murders of your eye,1 i« When, after millions slain,' yourself shall die ; When those fair suns shall set, as set...

...become a star, telling how it will endure after the other tresses shall have been laid in the grave. " This lock the muse shall consecrate to fame, And midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name." 10. Soon after he published The Rape of the Lock, Pope and his parents moved to Chiswick, a place on...

...Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravish' d hair Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall...the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, your self shall die : 783 When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall...

...poem: Then cease, bright Nymph! to mourn the ravish'd Hair Which adds new Glory to the shining Sphere! Not all the Tresses that fair Head can boast Shall draw such Envy as the Locke you lost. For. after all the Murders of your Eye. When, after Millions slain, your self shall...

...while the ironical hyperboles are deftly mediated by a darker sense of the transience of human beauty: For, after all the murders of your eye, When, after...shall die. When those fair suns shall set, as set them must. And all those tresses shall be laid in dust. This lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame....

...140 Then cease, bright nymph! to moum thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast. Shall...fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. 150 1:3. Caryll = John Caryll requeued the conciliatory light satire 1:44. Ring = place for flirting...

...140 Then cease, bright nymph! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall...fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. 150 EPISTLE To Miss BLOUNT On her leaving the Town after the CORONATION As some fond virgin, whom her...

...die, but your name will live because of what my muse has wrought. The four lines are as follows: (309) When those fair suns shall set, as set they must....fame. And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. The writers whom 1 have cited on recent pages have all been English. For two pertinent non-English...

...declaration, gallant but genuinely predictive, that Belinda and her hair will be immortalized by the poem: "This Lock, the Muse shall consecrate to Fame, / And mid'st the Stars inscribe Belinda's Name!" Lesser known early poems also end with predictions. The Messiah (1712) is an explicitly prophetic poem,...