"Could gold once give thee to my eager arms, / Lo, into guineas would I coin my heart;"
— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by William Porter
Date
1792
Metaphor
"Could gold once give thee to my eager arms, / Lo, into guineas would I coin my heart;"
Metaphor in Context
O could I gain by gold those heav'nly charms?
Could gold once give thee to my eager arms,
Lo, into guineas would I coin my heart;
Those would I pour pell-mell into thy lap,
With thee to wake to love, and then to nap,
Then wake again--again to sleep depart.
(cf. p. 36 in 1792 ed.)
Could gold once give thee to my eager arms,
Lo, into guineas would I coin my heart;
Those would I pour pell-mell into thy lap,
With thee to wake to love, and then to nap,
Then wake again--again to sleep depart.
(cf. p. 36 in 1792 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "coin" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO
Citation
6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1792, 1794). Searching and finding in Works, vol. 3 (1792, 1794).
See Odes to Kien Long, the Present Emperor of China; with The Quakers, a Tale; To a Fly Drowned in a Bowl of Punch; Ode To Macmanus, Townsend, And Jealous, The Thief-Takers; To Caelia. - To A Pretty Milliner. - To The Fleas Of Teneriffe. - To Sir William Hamilton. - To my Candle, &c. &c. &c. By Peter Pindar, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by William Porter, 1792). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
See Odes to Kien Long, the Present Emperor of China; with The Quakers, a Tale; To a Fly Drowned in a Bowl of Punch; Ode To Macmanus, Townsend, And Jealous, The Thief-Takers; To Caelia. - To A Pretty Milliner. - To The Fleas Of Teneriffe. - To Sir William Hamilton. - To my Candle, &c. &c. &c. By Peter Pindar, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by William Porter, 1792). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
Date of Entry
04/14/2005
Date of Review
04/26/2007
