"A Thousand Transports crowd his Breast."
— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Author
Work Title
Date
1720
Metaphor
"A Thousand Transports crowd his Breast."
Metaphor in Context
A Thousand Transports crowd his Breast,
He moves as light as fleeting Wind,
His former Sorrows seem a Jest,
Now when his Jeanie is turn'd kind:
Riches he looks on with Disdain,
The glorious Fields of War look mean,
The chearful Hound and Horn give Pain,
If absent from his bonny Jean.
He moves as light as fleeting Wind,
His former Sorrows seem a Jest,
Now when his Jeanie is turn'd kind:
Riches he looks on with Disdain,
The glorious Fields of War look mean,
The chearful Hound and Horn give Pain,
If absent from his bonny Jean.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "crowd" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 38 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1720, 1721, 1723, 1724, 1727, 1729, 1731, 1733, 1736, 1740, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1775, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1788, 1791, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1800).
See Poems. By Allan Ramsay. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author at the Mercury, opposite to Niddry’s-Wynd, 1720).
Found, in ECCO, in Miscellaneous Works of that Celebrated Scotch Poet. Allan Ramsay (1724) and The Caledonaid (1775). See also Poems by Allan Ramsay (1720, 1721, 1723, 1727, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1797, 1800), and Poems on Several Occasions (1776, 1780, 1793, 1794). Found also in several collections of songs: A New Miscellany of Scots Sangs (1727), The Musical Miscellany (1729), The Tea-Table Miscellany, The Merry Companion (1742), etc.
Text from The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
See Poems. By Allan Ramsay. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author at the Mercury, opposite to Niddry’s-Wynd, 1720).
Found, in ECCO, in Miscellaneous Works of that Celebrated Scotch Poet. Allan Ramsay (1724) and The Caledonaid (1775). See also Poems by Allan Ramsay (1720, 1721, 1723, 1727, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1797, 1800), and Poems on Several Occasions (1776, 1780, 1793, 1794). Found also in several collections of songs: A New Miscellany of Scots Sangs (1727), The Musical Miscellany (1729), The Tea-Table Miscellany, The Merry Companion (1742), etc.
Text from The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
Date of Entry
03/08/2006
