"Your Worth and Talents will unfold, / Richer than Needlework of Gold; / The native treasures of the soul, / True--as the Needle to the Pole."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Author

Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Work Title

To the Same, With a Needle-Case, Sent from Bath. [from Harvest-Home: Consisting of Supplementary Gleanings, Original Dramas and Poems, Contributions of Literary Friends, and Select Re-publications, Including Sympathy, a Poem, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. From the Eighth edition]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Phillips
Date
1805
Metaphor
"Your Worth and Talents will unfold, / Richer than Needlework of Gold; / The native treasures of the soul, / True--as the Needle to the Pole."
Metaphor in Context
And looking hence to after-time,
Your Bard shall prophesy in rhyme;
He sees that all which Art can give,
And Nature from such aid receive,
And all which springs from work or play,
From all that's grave and all that's gay,
Your Worth and Talents will unfold,
Richer than Needlework of Gold;
The native treasures of the soul,
True--as the Needle to the Pole.
Categories
Fabric::Needlework Uncategorized::Treasures Uncategorized::Compass::Needle Mineral::Metal::Gold Money
Provenance
HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
05/31/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.