| Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Complete Poetical Works. 1903. | | | | Poems: 1713–17 | | Lines Occasioned by Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham |
| | | MUSE, ’t is enough, at length thy labour ends, | |
| And thou shalt live, for Buckingham commends. | |
| Let crowds of critics now my verse assail, | |
| Let Dennis write, and nameless numbers rail: | |
| This more than pays whole years of thankless pain; | 5 |
| Time, health, and fortune, are not lost in vain. | |
| Sheffield approves, consenting Phœbus bends, | |
| And I and malice from this hour are friends. | | | | |
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