"Yet, if too soon this transient Pleasure fly, / A Charm more lasting shall the Loss supply: / While Harmony, with each attractive Grace, / Plays in the fair Proportions of her Face; / Where each soft Air, engaging and serene, / Beats Measure to the well-tun'd Mind within."
— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Rivington
Date
1762
Metaphor
"Yet, if too soon this transient Pleasure fly, / A Charm more lasting shall the Loss supply: / While Harmony, with each attractive Grace, / Plays in the fair Proportions of her Face; / Where each soft Air, engaging and serene, / Beats Measure to the well-tun'd Mind within."
Metaphor in Context
Yet, if too soon this transient Pleasure fly,
A Charm more lasting shall the Loss supply:
While Harmony, with each attractive Grace,
Plays in the fair Proportions of her Face;
Where each soft Air, engaging and serene,
Beats Measure to the well-tun'd Mind within:
Alike her Singing and her Silence move,
Whose voice is Music, and whose Looks are Love.
(ll. 11-18, p. 9)
A Charm more lasting shall the Loss supply:
While Harmony, with each attractive Grace,
Plays in the fair Proportions of her Face;
Where each soft Air, engaging and serene,
Beats Measure to the well-tun'd Mind within:
Alike her Singing and her Silence move,
Whose voice is Music, and whose Looks are Love.
(ll. 11-18, p. 9)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1762, 1766, 1776, 1777, 1789)
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1762). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO><Link 2nd edition in Google Books>
See also Elizabeth Carter, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a New Edition of her Poems, Ed. Montagu Pennington, 2 vols. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1816). <Link to WWO><Same edition in Internet Archive>
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1762). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO><Link 2nd edition in Google Books>
See also Elizabeth Carter, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a New Edition of her Poems, Ed. Montagu Pennington, 2 vols. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1816). <Link to WWO><Same edition in Internet Archive>
Date of Entry
06/23/2011
