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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10), Poetry - Volume 2

Note 702 — THE ARGUMENT.

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Fenton's translation of Sappho to Phaon:

Here, while by sorrow lulled to sleep I lay, Thus said the guardian nymph, or seemed to say.—Wakefield.

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act iv. Sc. 4:

Hark! you are called: some say, the Genius so Cries, "Come!" to him that instantly must die.

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