"She bids the soften'd Passions live--/ The Passions urge again their sway."
— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Place of Publication
London
Date
1791
Metaphor
"She bids the soften'd Passions live--/ The Passions urge again their sway."
Metaphor in Context
Then Memory wakes the magic smile,
Th' impassion'd voice, the melting eye,
That won't the trusting heart beguile,
And wakes again the hopeless sigh!
Her skill the glowing tints revive
Of scenes that Time had bade decay:
She bids the soften'd Passions live--
The Passions urge again their sway.
Yet o'er the long-regretted scene,
Thy song the grace of sorrow throws;
A melancholy charm serene,
More rare than all that mirth bestows.
Then hail, sweet Bird! and hail thy pensive tear!
To Taste, to Fancy, and to Virtue dear!"
(p. 182)
Th' impassion'd voice, the melting eye,
That won't the trusting heart beguile,
And wakes again the hopeless sigh!
Her skill the glowing tints revive
Of scenes that Time had bade decay:
She bids the soften'd Passions live--
The Passions urge again their sway.
Yet o'er the long-regretted scene,
Thy song the grace of sorrow throws;
A melancholy charm serene,
More rare than all that mirth bestows.
Then hail, sweet Bird! and hail thy pensive tear!
To Taste, to Fancy, and to Virtue dear!"
(p. 182)
Provenance
Searching Michael Gamer's online collection of Radcliffe's poetry at http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/radcliffepoems.html
Citation
At least 11 entries in ECCO (1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1799, 1800).
See The Romance of the Forest: Interspersed With Some Pieces of Poetry. by the Authoress of "a Sicilian Romance," &c. in Three Volumes. (London: Printed for T. Hookham and J. Carpenter, 1791). <Link to ESTC>
Reading Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance. ed. Alison Milbank. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1993.
See The Romance of the Forest: Interspersed With Some Pieces of Poetry. by the Authoress of "a Sicilian Romance," &c. in Three Volumes. (London: Printed for T. Hookham and J. Carpenter, 1791). <Link to ESTC>
Reading Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance. ed. Alison Milbank. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1993.
Theme
Ruling Passion
Date of Entry
10/21/2005
Date of Review
05/13/2013
