"The fair Sicilians now thy Soul inflame; / Why was I born, ye Gods, a Lesbian Dame?"
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
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Date
1712
Metaphor
"The fair Sicilians now thy Soul inflame; / Why was I born, ye Gods, a Lesbian Dame?"
Metaphor in Context
The fair Sicilians now thy Soul inflame;
Why was I born, ye Gods, a Lesbian Dame?
But ah beware, Sicilian Nymphs! nor boast
That wandring heart which I so lately lost;
Nor be with all those tempting Words abus'd,
Those tempting Words were all to Sapho us'd.
(ll. 63-68, p. 30-1)
Why was I born, ye Gods, a Lesbian Dame?
But ah beware, Sicilian Nymphs! nor boast
That wandring heart which I so lately lost;
Nor be with all those tempting Words abus'd,
Those tempting Words were all to Sapho us'd.
(ll. 63-68, p. 30-1)
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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
