"For they have Hearts Impression to receive, / And you have Eyes to conquer and enslave."
— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Lewis [etc.]
Date
1709
Metaphor
"For they have Hearts Impression to receive, / And you have Eyes to conquer and enslave."
Metaphor in Context
Happy for VVomankind, as happy too
For us, were all your Beauteous Sex like you;
VVou'd they Behaviour from thy Pattern learn,
Dress well, but make the Soul their chief Concern.
But ah! Mankind wou'd then too happy be;
And Heav'n has shew'd us, in creating thee,
Such VVorth's a thing we must but seldom see:
For, unlike thee, most of your Sex we find
Not made to Pleasure, but to Plague Mankind.
Vain are our Youth to let you then so long
Thus single live--but 'tis themselves they wrong:
Or rather you're unkind, and will not take
Th'Addresses which, without Dispute, they make:
For they have Hearts Impression to receive,
And you have Eyes to conquer and enslave.
Yes! yes! I see 'em at your Foot-stool kneel,
I hear 'em sigh, and with a Pang reveal
That Love they did with greater Pangs conceal!
O don't persist thus cruel!--but encline
To Pity; Love's a Passion all Divine:
Make some one Happy, and reward his Care;
And ease the rest by giving 'em Despair.
For us, were all your Beauteous Sex like you;
VVou'd they Behaviour from thy Pattern learn,
Dress well, but make the Soul their chief Concern.
But ah! Mankind wou'd then too happy be;
And Heav'n has shew'd us, in creating thee,
Such VVorth's a thing we must but seldom see:
For, unlike thee, most of your Sex we find
Not made to Pleasure, but to Plague Mankind.
Vain are our Youth to let you then so long
Thus single live--but 'tis themselves they wrong:
Or rather you're unkind, and will not take
Th'Addresses which, without Dispute, they make:
For they have Hearts Impression to receive,
And you have Eyes to conquer and enslave.
Yes! yes! I see 'em at your Foot-stool kneel,
I hear 'em sigh, and with a Pang reveal
That Love they did with greater Pangs conceal!
O don't persist thus cruel!--but encline
To Pity; Love's a Passion all Divine:
Make some one Happy, and reward his Care;
And ease the rest by giving 'em Despair.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "impression" and "heart" 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
05/16/2005
