"With Eyes that Languish and with Conquer'd Hearts / We own your Pow'r, your Raptures, Flames and Darts: / Charm more than You."
— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Lewis
Date
1709
Metaphor
"With Eyes that Languish and with Conquer'd Hearts / We own your Pow'r, your Raptures, Flames and Darts: / Charm more than You."
Metaphor in Context
O Madam! He Replies, you are unjust,
Can you inevitable Charms distrust?
With Eyes that Languish and with Conquer'd Hearts
We own your Pow'r, your Raptures, Flames and Darts:
Charm more than You? O touch not that extreme!
What Goddess does her own Divinity Blaspheme?
Can you inevitable Charms distrust?
With Eyes that Languish and with Conquer'd Hearts
We own your Pow'r, your Raptures, Flames and Darts:
Charm more than You? O touch not that extreme!
What Goddess does her own Divinity Blaspheme?
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
The Works of Mr. Robert Gould: In Two Volumes. Consisting of those Poems and Satyrs Which were formerly Printed, and Corrected since by the Author; As also of the many more which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd from his Own Original Copies (London: W. Lewis, 1709). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
02/09/2005
