Stamp every act?
— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson
Date
1796
Metaphor
Stamp every act?
Metaphor in Context
Do thou not, Mira, follow Circe's line--
In thee, let soft maternal pleasure shine;
Pleasure that virtuous mothers highly taste,
When gen'rous Hymen makes them more than chaste.
Benign and social, new affections grow;
Their minds enlarg'd, their noblest spirits flow;
Friendship, compassion, sympathy, and love,
Such as the self-corrected mind may prove,
Stamp ev'ry act.--These gen'rous joys are thine--
Wouldst thou exchange them for Golconda's mine?
In thee, let soft maternal pleasure shine;
Pleasure that virtuous mothers highly taste,
When gen'rous Hymen makes them more than chaste.
Benign and social, new affections grow;
Their minds enlarg'd, their noblest spirits flow;
Friendship, compassion, sympathy, and love,
Such as the self-corrected mind may prove,
Stamp ev'ry act.--These gen'rous joys are thine--
Wouldst thou exchange them for Golconda's mine?
Categories
Provenance
Searching "stamp" and "mind" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC
Ann Yearsley, The Rural Lyre: a Volume of Poems Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bristol, Lord Bishop of Derry (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Reading Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Ann Yearsley, The Rural Lyre: a Volume of Poems Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bristol, Lord Bishop of Derry (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Reading Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Date of Entry
04/07/2005
