"The yielding paper's pure, but vacant breast, / By her fair hand and flowing pen imprest, / At ev'ry touch more animated grows."
— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Date
1752, 1790
Metaphor
"The yielding paper's pure, but vacant breast, / By her fair hand and flowing pen imprest, / At ev'ry touch more animated grows."
Metaphor in Context
See with what art the sable currents stain
In wand'ring mazes all the milk-white plain!
Thus o'er the meadows wrap'd in silver snow
Unfrozen brooks in dark meanders flow;
Thus jetty curls in shining ringlets deck
The ivory plain of lovely CHLOE's neck:
See, like some virgin, whose unmeaning charms
Receive new lustre from a lover's arms, [end page 127]
The yielding paper's pure, but vacant breast,
By her fair hand and flowing pen imprest,
At ev'ry touch more animated grows,
And with new life and new ideas glows,
Fresh beauties from the kind defiler gains,
And shines each moment brighter from its stains.
(pp. 127-8)
In wand'ring mazes all the milk-white plain!
Thus o'er the meadows wrap'd in silver snow
Unfrozen brooks in dark meanders flow;
Thus jetty curls in shining ringlets deck
The ivory plain of lovely CHLOE's neck:
See, like some virgin, whose unmeaning charms
Receive new lustre from a lover's arms, [end page 127]
The yielding paper's pure, but vacant breast,
By her fair hand and flowing pen imprest,
At ev'ry touch more animated grows,
And with new life and new ideas glows,
Fresh beauties from the kind defiler gains,
And shines each moment brighter from its stains.
(pp. 127-8)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "paper" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from The Works of Soame Jenyns, 4 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790).
See Soame Jenyns, Poems. By *****. (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1752). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See Soame Jenyns, Poems. By *****. (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1752). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Theme
Blank Slate
Date of Entry
03/26/2005
Date of Review
01/24/2006
