"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."
— West, Jane (1758-1852)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by C. Whittingham
Date
w. 1784, 1799
Metaphor
"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."
Metaphor in Context
That home, well ordered, proves her merit,
She is its animating spirit.
Each servant, at the task assigned,
Proclaims a regulating mind.
Pleased she surveys her infant charge,
Beholds the mental powers enlarge,
And as the young ideas rise,
Directs their issues to the skies.
(ll. 49-56, p. 381-2 in Lonsdale; p. 172 in 1799 ed.)
She is its animating spirit.
Each servant, at the task assigned,
Proclaims a regulating mind.
Pleased she surveys her infant charge,
Beholds the mental powers enlarge,
And as the young ideas rise,
Directs their issues to the skies.
(ll. 49-56, p. 381-2 in Lonsdale; p. 172 in 1799 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Reading; confirmed in ECCO
Citation
See Poems and Plays. By Mrs. West (London: Printed by C. Whittingham; for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, 1799). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989).
Text from Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989).
Date of Entry
07/28/2003
