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DRAMATISTS > poet > Alexander Pope
Vital spark of...
Vendor: DRAMATISTS
Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, oh quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
Oh the pain, the bliss of dying.
Source: The Dying Christian to his Soul
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.