An "anxious tender air / Proves o'er her heart the conquest won"
— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Work Title
Date
1760, 1850
Metaphor
An "anxious tender air / Proves o'er her heart the conquest won"
Metaphor in Context
Cease, plaintive sounds, your task is done,
That anxious tender air
Proves o'er her heart the conquest won,
I see you melting there.
That anxious tender air
Proves o'er her heart the conquest won,
I see you melting there.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1760).
See Poems on Several Occasions. By William Hamilton of Bangour, Esquire. (Edinburgh: Printed for W. Gordon Bookseller in the Parliament Close, 1760). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Poems and Songs of William Hamilton of Bangour, ed. James Paterson (Edinburgh: Thomas George Stevenson, 1850).
See Poems on Several Occasions. By William Hamilton of Bangour, Esquire. (Edinburgh: Printed for W. Gordon Bookseller in the Parliament Close, 1760). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Poems and Songs of William Hamilton of Bangour, ed. James Paterson (Edinburgh: Thomas George Stevenson, 1850).
Date of Entry
02/10/2005
