"Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain / The soft impressions which his heart assail'd."
— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by C. Roworth, for T. Egerton [etc.]
Date
1801
Metaphor
"Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain / The soft impressions which his heart assail'd."
Metaphor in Context
Thus saying, to her wildly throbbing breast,
Which rose as if convuls'd with amorous pain,
With grasp ecstatic she the Monarch press'd.
A kindling ardour rush'd thro' ev'ry vein,
Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain
The soft impressions which his heart assail'd.
But faith and duty soon resum'd their reign:
He paus'd, he sigh'd, as reason's pow'r unveil'd
The artifice refin'd which o'er his soul prevail'd.
Which rose as if convuls'd with amorous pain,
With grasp ecstatic she the Monarch press'd.
A kindling ardour rush'd thro' ev'ry vein,
Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain
The soft impressions which his heart assail'd.
But faith and duty soon resum'd their reign:
He paus'd, he sigh'd, as reason's pow'r unveil'd
The artifice refin'd which o'er his soul prevail'd.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "impression" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
05/16/2005
