"Now, when unbridled Passions use to reign, / While vanquish'd Reason wears the Victor's Chain, / See Pleasure, fair and smiling as the Morn, / (Soft Silks her Limbs, gay Flow'rs her Head adorn) / Which with her Breath perfumes the ambient Air, / While sporting Zephyrs heave her golden Hair, / Midst her bright Train exerts her conq'ring Charms, / And beckning calls you to her open Arms."
— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Wilkins for Jonas Browne ... and J. Walthoe [etc.]
Date
1718
Metaphor
"Now, when unbridled Passions use to reign, / While vanquish'd Reason wears the Victor's Chain, / See Pleasure, fair and smiling as the Morn, / (Soft Silks her Limbs, gay Flow'rs her Head adorn) / Which with her Breath perfumes the ambient Air, / While sporting Zephyrs heave her golden Hair, / Midst her bright Train exerts her conq'ring Charms, / And beckning calls you to her open Arms."
Metaphor in Context
Now downy Honours grace your manly Chin,
And high Spring-Tides with bounding Life begin
To swell your Veins, while active Spirits sport,
And Nature triumphs in her Vital Court;
Now, when unbridled Passions use to reign,
While vanquish'd Reason wears the Victor's Chain,
See Pleasure, fair and smiling as the Morn,
(Soft Silks her Limbs, gay Flow'rs her Head adorn)
Which with her Breath perfumes the ambient Air,
While sporting Zephyrs heave her golden Hair,
Midst her bright Train exerts her conq'ring Charms,
And beckning calls you to her open Arms.
(ll. 33-44)
And high Spring-Tides with bounding Life begin
To swell your Veins, while active Spirits sport,
And Nature triumphs in her Vital Court;
Now, when unbridled Passions use to reign,
While vanquish'd Reason wears the Victor's Chain,
See Pleasure, fair and smiling as the Morn,
(Soft Silks her Limbs, gay Flow'rs her Head adorn)
Which with her Breath perfumes the ambient Air,
While sporting Zephyrs heave her golden Hair,
Midst her bright Train exerts her conq'ring Charms,
And beckning calls you to her open Arms.
(ll. 33-44)
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC and ECCO (1718).
Richard Blackmore, A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. Fellow of the Royal-College of Physicians. (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for Jonas Browne and J. Walthoe, 1718). <Link to ECCO>
Richard Blackmore, A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. Fellow of the Royal-College of Physicians. (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for Jonas Browne and J. Walthoe, 1718). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
05/20/2010
Date of Review
06/27/2011
