Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek

London

1725-6

"A willing Goddess, and immortal life, / Might banish from thy mind an absent wife."

Ulysses! (with a sigh she thus began)
Oh sprung from Gods! in wisdom more than man.
Is then thy home the passion of thy heart?
Thus wilt thou leave me, are we thus to part?
Farewel! and ever joyful may'st thou be,
Nor break the transport with one thought of me.
But ah Ulysses! wert thou giv'n to know
What fate yet dooms thee, yet, to undergo;
Thy heart might settle in this scene of ease,
And ev'n these slighted charms might learn to please.
A willing Goddess, and immortal life,
Might banish from thy mind an absent wife.
Am I inferior to a mortal dame?
Less soft my feature, less august my frame?
Or shall the daughters of mankind compare
Their earth-born beauties with the heav'nly fair?
(Bk. V)

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The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek, 5 vols. (London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1725-26).

10/26/2003