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Give all thou canst—and let me dream the rest. Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize, With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God. Ah, think at least thy flock deserves thy care, Plants of thy hand, and children of thy pray'r.
Abelard and his pupil Heloise by Edmund Leighton, 1882. Eloisa to Abelard is a verse epistle by Alexander Pope that was published in 1717 and based on a well-known medieval story. Itself an imitation of a Latin poetic genre, its immediate fame resulted in a large number of English imitations throughout the rest of the century and other poems ...
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Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd. The title Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind comes from these lines. Mary Svevo quotes Alexander Pope's poem in Eloisa to Abélard during Joel's procedure. Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of ...
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3 days ago · Yet, yet I love!--From Abelard it came, D. And Eloisa yet must kiss the name. Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, C. Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, E. Where mix'd with God's, his lov'd idea lies: E. O write it not, my hand--the name appears X.
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Give all thou canst — and let me dream the rest. Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize, With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God. Ah, think at least thy flock deserves thy care, Plants of thy hand, and children of thy pray'r.
1 Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, in the Twickenham Edition of The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems (ed. Tillotson, Geoffrey; 3d ed.; London and New Haven: Methuen and Yale University, 1962) 11. 163–70. All quotations from Eloisa to Abelard are taken from this edition and will be cited in the text by line reference.Google Scholar
And Eloisa yet must kiss the name. Already written, —wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays. Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeys. I have not yet forgot myself to stone. All is not Heaven's while Abelard has part. Nor prayers nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain. Nor tears for ages taught to flow in vain. Poetry ...
