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“Methinks I hear some gentle spirit say,
Be not fearful—come away!”
Pope was the author of numerous imitations of other Poets, such as Chaucer, Spenser, Waller, Abraham Cowley, the Earl of Rochester, the Earl of Dorset, and Dean Swift. The poem in imitation of Chaucer is somewhat coarse, that after Dr. Swift will be quoted later on, under that author’s name.
COLIN’S COMPLAINT.
Nicholas Rowe, Born 1673, Died 1718.
Poet Laureate 1715 to 1718.
Despairing beside a clear stream,
A shepherd forsaken was laid;