"Was there one joy, whose image does not last? / But that One; most extatic, most refin'd, / Reigns fresh, and will for ever in my mind, / With such a power of charms it storm'd my soul, / That nothing ever can it's strength controul."
To Leonora [On Absence]
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1739, 1740).<br>
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See <u>Miscellaneous Works of His Late Exellency Matthew Prior, Esq; Consisting of Poems on Several Occasions, Viz. Epistles, Tales, Satires, Epigrams, &C. With Some Select Latin Performances. Now First Published from His Original Manuscripts. Revised by Himself, and Copied Fair for the Press, by Mr. Adrian Drift, His Executor.</u> (Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for G. Risk at the Shakespear's-Head, G. Ewing at the Angel and Bible, W. Smith, at the Hercules, Booksellers in Dame-Street, and G. Faulkner, in Essex-Street, 1739). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW115125626&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse</u>, ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907).<br>
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Reading <u>The Literary Works of Matthew Prior</u>. Ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).