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WEEPING - Alexander Pope, The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope [1903]

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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Cambridge Edition, ed. Henry W. Boynton (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903).

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WEEPING

    • While Celia’s tears make sorrow bright,
    • Proud grief sits swelling in her eyes;
    • The sun, next those the fairest light,
    • Thus from the ocean first did rise:
    • And thus thro’ mists we see the sun,
    • Which else we durst not gaze upon.
    • These silver drops, like morning dew,
    • Foretell the fervor of the day:
    • So from one cloud soft showers we view,
    • And blasting lightnings burst away.
    • The stars that fall from Celia’s eye
    • Declare our doom is drawing nigh.
    • The baby in that sunny sphere
    • So like a Phaëton appears,
    • That Heav’n, the threaten’d world to spare,
    • Thought fit to drown him in her tears;
    • Else might th’ ambitions nymph aspire
    • To set, like him, Heav’n too on fire.