"There, 'mid her faithful vassal train, / With hearts to conquer, or to die, / Eliza sat; her beauteous mein / Eclips'd by Sorrow's tearful eye."
— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Author
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Publisher
Printed by Wal. Ruddiman and Company
Date
1771
Metaphor
"There, 'mid her faithful vassal train, / With hearts to conquer, or to die, / Eliza sat; her beauteous mein / Eclips'd by Sorrow's tearful eye."
Metaphor in Context
There, 'mid her faithful vassal train,
With hearts to conquer, or to die,
Eliza sat; her beauteous mein
Eclips'd by Sorrow's tearful eye.
With hearts to conquer, or to die,
Eliza sat; her beauteous mein
Eclips'd by Sorrow's tearful eye.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Occasional Poems; by Mr Colvill, 2nd edition (London: J. Wilkie and J. Dodsley, 1771). <Link to ECCO>
See also Robert Colvill, The Caledonian Heroine, or the Invasion and Fall of Sueno the Dane. In two cantos. (Edinburgh: Printed by Wal. Ruddiman and Company, 1771). <Link to ECCO>
See also Robert Colvill, The Caledonian Heroine, or the Invasion and Fall of Sueno the Dane. In two cantos. (Edinburgh: Printed by Wal. Ruddiman and Company, 1771). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
02/09/2005
