<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431463" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On the Death of Mrs. Bowes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written extempore on a card, in a large company, December 14, 1724.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Hail, happy bride, for thou art truly blest! <br>Three months of rapture, crown'd with endless rest. <br>Merit like yours was Heav'n's peculiar care, <br>You lov'd -- yet tasted happiness sincere. <br>To you the sweets of love were only shown, <br>The sure succeeding bitter dregs unknown; <br>You had not yet the fatal charge deplor'd, <br>The tender lover for th'imperious lord: <br>Nor felt the pain that jealous fondness brings: <br>Nor felt, that coldness from possession springs. <br>Above your sex, distinguish'd in your fate, <br>You trusted -- yet experienc'd no deceit; <br>Soft were your hours, and wing'd with pleasure flew; <br>No vain repentance gave a sigh to you: <br>And if superior bliss Heaven can bestow, <br>With fellow-angels you enjoy it now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lady+Mary+Wortley+Montagu">Lady Mary Wortley Montagu</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431463" data-title="On the Death of Mrs. Bowes de Lady Mary Wortley Montagu" data-description="Written extempore on a card, in a large company, December 14, 1724. Hail, happy bride, for thou art truly blest! Three months of rapture, crown'd with endless rest. Merit like yours was Heav'n's peculiar care, You lov'd -- yet tasted happines..."></div> </div> </div>

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