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

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]

London

Printed for Richard Phillips

1805

Minerva has "With ready Thought, Expression fit, / And sterling Sense, and playful Wit" array'd her "favour'd Boy" Cupid

And Thou, Minerva, pr'ythee say,
Why with so bright a mental ray,
And all that marks the blue-ey'd Maid,
Hast thou this favour'd Boy array'd?
With ready Thought, Expression fit,
And sterling Sense, and playful Wit!
If these rare Pow'rs are giv'n the Youth
But to disguise immortal Truth,
And Falsehood thus belie the God,
Would he were duller than a Clod!

Mineral::Sterling Silver Mineral::Sterling Silver

Searching "heart" and "sterling" in HDIS (Poetry)

06/03/2005