"Love taught my Tears in sadder Notes to flow, / And tun'd my Heart to Elegies of Woe."
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
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Work Title
Date
1712
Metaphor
"Love taught my Tears in sadder Notes to flow, / And tun'd my Heart to Elegies of Woe."
Metaphor in Context
Say lovely Youth, that dos my Heart command,
Can Phaon's Eyes forget his Sapho's Hand?
Must then her Name the wretched Writer prove?
To thy Remembrance lost, as to thy Love!
Ask not the cause that I new Numbers chuse,
The Lute neglected, and the Lyric Muse;
Love taught my Tears in sadder Notes to flow,
And tun'd my Heart to Elegies of Woe.
(ll. 1-8, p. 29)
Can Phaon's Eyes forget his Sapho's Hand?
Must then her Name the wretched Writer prove?
To thy Remembrance lost, as to thy Love!
Ask not the cause that I new Numbers chuse,
The Lute neglected, and the Lyric Muse;
Love taught my Tears in sadder Notes to flow,
And tun'd my Heart to Elegies of Woe.
(ll. 1-8, p. 29)
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Reading
Citation
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations. Ed. John Butt. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.
Date of Entry
12/05/2003
