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"The history of his Heart can tell; / Can all its sterling powers unfold, / More worth than Pens or Mines of Gold"

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

Author

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

Work Title

To Mrs. Vancouver. [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

"The history of his Heart can tell; / Can all its sterling powers unfold, / More worth than Pens or Mines of Gold"

Metaphor in Context

O then, since you so true, so well,
The history of his Heart can tell;
Can all its sterling powers unfold,
More worth than Pens or Mines of Gold;
You who, in every trial, found
The Heart he gave to you was sound;
You, who can summon long-past Time
To aid the Prophecy sublime
The Muse has dar'd, in mirror bright,
To press upon the admiring sight,--
That his proud Triumph on the View
Shall start till Foes confess it too,--
Confess it with ingenuous shame,
Own their mistake, and join his fame:
To You the Golden Pen should bend;
To You its grateful verse extend!