"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
printed for the author
Date
1766
Metaphor
"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
Metaphor in Context
As on the painted turf the shepherd lies,
Sleep's downy curtain shades his lovely eyes;
And now a sporting breeze his bosom shews,
As marble smooth, and white as Alpine snows:
The Goddess gaz'd, in magic softness bound;
Her silver bow falls useless to the ground?
Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart
Unerring, to her undefended heart.
She feels in ev'ry vein the fatal fire,
And thus persuades her virgins to retire:
(p. 90)
Sleep's downy curtain shades his lovely eyes;
And now a sporting breeze his bosom shews,
As marble smooth, and white as Alpine snows:
The Goddess gaz'd, in magic softness bound;
Her silver bow falls useless to the ground?
Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart
Unerring, to her undefended heart.
She feels in ev'ry vein the fatal fire,
And thus persuades her virgins to retire:
(p. 90)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
John Cunningham, Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (London: printed for the author, 1766). <Link to ECCO>
Chadwyck-Healey draws from the second edition of 1771.
See also The poetical works of Jo. Cunningham (London: Printed for, and under the direction of, G. Cawthorn, 1797), 147-8. <Link to Google Books>
Chadwyck-Healey draws from the second edition of 1771.
See also The poetical works of Jo. Cunningham (London: Printed for, and under the direction of, G. Cawthorn, 1797), 147-8. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
02/09/2005
