"For ever on my soul engraved / His glowing cheek, his manly mien."
— Sawyer, Ann (fl. 1794-1801)
Author
Date
1801
Metaphor
"For ever on my soul engraved / His glowing cheek, his manly mien."
Metaphor in Context
THOSE are the features, those the smiles,
That first engaged my virgin heart:
I feel the pencilled image true,
I feel the mimic power of art.
For ever on my soul engraved
His glowing cheek, his manly mien;
I need not thee, thou painted shade,
To tell me what my Love has been.
O dearer now, though bent with age,
Than in the pride of blooming youth!
I knew not then his constant heart,
I knew not then his matchless truth.
(ll. 1-12, pp. 503-4)
That first engaged my virgin heart:
I feel the pencilled image true,
I feel the mimic power of art.
For ever on my soul engraved
His glowing cheek, his manly mien;
I need not thee, thou painted shade,
To tell me what my Love has been.
O dearer now, though bent with age,
Than in the pride of blooming youth!
I knew not then his constant heart,
I knew not then his matchless truth.
(ll. 1-12, pp. 503-4)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
07/29/2003
Date of Review
11/24/2011
