- Full Text
- May day improve on day and year on year
Without a sigh a trouble or a fear.
Till death unfelt this slender frame destroy
In some soft dream or extacy of joy.
- Listed on Page Number
- 292
- Sampler Worked By
- Abigail Wright
- Date of Sampler
- 1811
- Place Sampler Made
- Medfield, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 244
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Pope, Alexander. ”The Wish. Sent to Mrs. M.B. on her Birth-Day, June 15.” Miscellany Poems, London: Bernard Lintot, 1726, 5th ed., vol. 1, pg. 206 and Swift, Jonathan, D.D. and Alexander Pope, Esq. “To Mrs. M.B. Sent on Her Birth-day.” Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. London: Sam. Fairbrother, 1728, vol. 2, pg. 100.
- Notes
- This is a variation of Pope's poem, first published as ”The Wish. Sent to Mrs. M.B. on her Birth-Day, June 15.” Pope publishes the poem’s final form in 1728, which is closest to our stitcher’s variation of these verses.
1728 Verse: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_miscellanies-in-prose-an_swift-jonathan_1728_2/page/100/mode/1up?q=%22in+some+soft+dream%22