Shafts more subtile, may be darted from the Eye and "Thro' softer Hearts with silent Conquest fly"
— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Author
Date
1724
Metaphor
Shafts more subtile, may be darted from the Eye and "Thro' softer Hearts with silent Conquest fly"
Metaphor in Context
No hidden Murmure swells the Archer's Heart,
While each with Gladness acts his proper Part.
No factious Strife, nor Plots, the Bane of States,
Give Birth to Jealousies or dire Debates:
Nor less their Pleasure who Obedience pay,
Good Order to preserve, as those who sway.
O smiling Muse, full well thou knows the Fair;
Admire the Courteous, and with Pleasure share
Their Love with him that's generous and brave,
And can with manly Dignity behave;
Then haste to warn thy tender Care with Speed,
Lest by some Random-shaft their Hearts may bleed.
Yon dangerous Youths both Mars and Venus arm,
While with their double Darts they threat and charm;
Those at their Side forbid invading Foes,
With vain Attempt true Courage to oppose;
While Shafts mair subtile, darted from their Eye,
Thro' softer Hearts with silent Conquest fly.
While each with Gladness acts his proper Part.
No factious Strife, nor Plots, the Bane of States,
Give Birth to Jealousies or dire Debates:
Nor less their Pleasure who Obedience pay,
Good Order to preserve, as those who sway.
O smiling Muse, full well thou knows the Fair;
Admire the Courteous, and with Pleasure share
Their Love with him that's generous and brave,
And can with manly Dignity behave;
Then haste to warn thy tender Care with Speed,
Lest by some Random-shaft their Hearts may bleed.
Yon dangerous Youths both Mars and Venus arm,
While with their double Darts they threat and charm;
Those at their Side forbid invading Foes,
With vain Attempt true Courage to oppose;
While Shafts mair subtile, darted from their Eye,
Thro' softer Hearts with silent Conquest fly.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1724, 1726, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1776, 1780, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1800).
Found in ECCO in Health: A Poem (1724). See Poems by Allan Ramsay (1721, 1723, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1797, 1800), and Poems on Several Occasions (1776, 1780, 1793, 1794).
See The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
Found in ECCO in Health: A Poem (1724). See Poems by Allan Ramsay (1721, 1723, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1797, 1800), and Poems on Several Occasions (1776, 1780, 1793, 1794).
See 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
02/14/2005
