"No--long they lived great nature to explore, / Their minds enriching with poetic store."
— Pointon, Priscilla [AKA Priscilla Pickering] (c. 1740-1801)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Birmingham
Publisher
Printed by E. Piercy
Date
1794
Metaphor
"No--long they lived great nature to explore, / Their minds enriching with poetic store."
Metaphor in Context
I never tasted the Pierian spring,
Of which great Pope does with such rapture sing.
For, since deprived from infacny of sight,
How should my muse in lofty numbers write?
Milton and Homer both, you say, were blind,
And where on earth can we their equals find?
But were they blind like me in infant state?
Or did they tast like me tenebrous fate?
No--long they lived great nature to explore,
Their minds enriching with poetic store.
(ll. 1-10, p. 273)
Of which great Pope does with such rapture sing.
For, since deprived from infacny of sight,
How should my muse in lofty numbers write?
Milton and Homer both, you say, were blind,
And where on earth can we their equals find?
But were they blind like me in infant state?
Or did they tast like me tenebrous fate?
No--long they lived great nature to explore,
Their minds enriching with poetic store.
(ll. 1-10, p. 273)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1794).
Reading in Roger Lonsdale's Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989).
See also Poems by Mrs. Pickering. To Which Are Added Poetical Sketches by the Author, and Translator of Philotoxi Ardenæ. (Birmingham: Printed by E. Piercy, No. 96, In Bull - Street; and sold by J. Johnson, ST. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1794). <Link to ECCO>
Reading in Roger Lonsdale's Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989).
See also Poems by Mrs. Pickering. To Which Are Added Poetical Sketches by the Author, and Translator of Philotoxi Ardenæ. (Birmingham: Printed by E. Piercy, No. 96, In Bull - Street; and sold by J. Johnson, ST. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1794). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/23/2003
Date of Review
06/17/2011
