"Ah! think not, WHITE, the Muse from fancy brings / Those woes, for Hist'ry sanctions what she sings, / Her bloody Annals still does Truth unfold, / Stain'd with the victims of soul-spotting gold."
— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell
Date
1788
Metaphor
"Ah! think not, WHITE, the Muse from fancy brings / Those woes, for Hist'ry sanctions what she sings, / Her bloody Annals still does Truth unfold, / Stain'd with the victims of soul-spotting gold."
Metaphor in Context
Their Woes, how countless--ah! ill-fated race,
How shall I paint thy anguish and disgrace,
Ah! think not, WHITE, the Muse from fancy brings
Those woes, for Hist'ry sanctions what she sings,
Her bloody Annals still does Truth unfold,
Stain'd with the victims of soul-spotting gold.
(p. 82)
How shall I paint thy anguish and disgrace,
Ah! think not, WHITE, the Muse from fancy brings
Those woes, for Hist'ry sanctions what she sings,
Her bloody Annals still does Truth unfold,
Stain'd with the victims of soul-spotting gold.
(p. 82)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "gold" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 7 entries in ESTC (1788, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800).
Samuel Jackson Pratt, Humanity, or the Rights of Nature, a Poem; in Two Books. By the Author of Sympathy (London: T. Cadell, 1788). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Added to Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia (1795, 1796, 1798, 1800).
Samuel Jackson Pratt, Humanity, or the Rights of Nature, a Poem; in Two Books. By the Author of Sympathy (London: T. Cadell, 1788). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Added to Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia (1795, 1796, 1798, 1800).
Date of Entry
05/31/2005
Date of Review
07/18/2011
