"Nature on all sides showed a lovely scene, / And people's minds were, like the air, serene."
— Hands, Elizabeth (bap. 1746, d. 1815)
Place of Publication
Coventry
Publisher
Printed for the Author, by N. Rollason
Date
1789
Metaphor
"Nature on all sides showed a lovely scene, / And people's minds were, like the air, serene."
Metaphor in Context
WHEN summer smiled, and birds on every spray
In joyous warblings tuned their vocal lay,
Nature on all sides showed a lovely scene,
And people's minds were, like the air, serene;
Sudden from th' herd we saw an heifer stray,
And to our peaceful village bend her way.
(ll. 1-6 p. 424)
In joyous warblings tuned their vocal lay,
Nature on all sides showed a lovely scene,
And people's minds were, like the air, serene;
Sudden from th' herd we saw an heifer stray,
And to our peaceful village bend her way.
(ll. 1-6 p. 424)
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Citation
Text from Roger Lonsdale, ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
See also The Death of Amnon. A Poem. With an Appendix: Containing Pastorals, and Other Poetical Pieces. By Elizabeth Hands. (Coventry: Printed for the Author, by N. Rollason, 1789). <Link to Google Books>
See also The Death of Amnon. A Poem. With an Appendix: Containing Pastorals, and Other Poetical Pieces. By Elizabeth Hands. (Coventry: Printed for the Author, by N. Rollason, 1789). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/29/2003
