Compliance may be a balsam to the mind
— Savage, Mary (fl. 1763-1777)
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Work Title
Date
1777
Metaphor
Compliance may be a balsam to the mind
Metaphor in Context
Each female would have regal power,
But every male wants something more;
And that same balsam to the mind,
Which both would in compliance find,
Is, to this very time and hour,
Miscalled by them the want of power.
(ll. 13-18, p. 348)
But every male wants something more;
And that same balsam to the mind,
Which both would in compliance find,
Is, to this very time and hour,
Miscalled by them the want of power.
(ll. 13-18, p. 348)
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Reading
Citation
Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
07/28/2003
