"[Y]et much the Poet found, / To swell Imagination's golden store, / On Arno's bank"
— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. Sael
Date
1799
Metaphor
"[Y]et much the Poet found, / To swell Imagination's golden store, / On Arno's bank"
Metaphor in Context
He found her not:--yet much the Poet found,
To swell Imagination's golden store,
On Arno's bank, and on that bloomy shore,
Warbling Parthenope; in the wide bound,
Where Rome's forlorn Campania stretches round
Her ruin'd towers and temples;--classic lore
Breathing sublimer spirit from the power
Of local consciousness.--Thrice happy wound,
Given by his sleeping graces, as the fair
"Hung over them enamour'd," the desire
Thy fond result inspired, that wing'd him there,
Where breath'd each Roman and each Tuscan lyre,
Might haply fan the emulative flame,
That rose o'er DANTE's song, and rival'd MARO's fame.
(p. 77)
To swell Imagination's golden store,
On Arno's bank, and on that bloomy shore,
Warbling Parthenope; in the wide bound,
Where Rome's forlorn Campania stretches round
Her ruin'd towers and temples;--classic lore
Breathing sublimer spirit from the power
Of local consciousness.--Thrice happy wound,
Given by his sleeping graces, as the fair
"Hung over them enamour'd," the desire
Thy fond result inspired, that wing'd him there,
Where breath'd each Roman and each Tuscan lyre,
Might haply fan the emulative flame,
That rose o'er DANTE's song, and rival'd MARO's fame.
(p. 77)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "imagination" and "gold" in HDIS (Poetry). Checked in ECCO.
Date of Entry
06/01/2005
Date of Review
10/19/2005
