"Far nobler prize my heart constrains, / Yielding to soft controul; / Far other beauty binds in chains / The magnet of my soul."
— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Author
Date
1789
Metaphor
"Far nobler prize my heart constrains, / Yielding to soft controul; / Far other beauty binds in chains / The magnet of my soul."
Metaphor in Context
"Let the fair Syrens sly deceive
"The gaudy saunt'ring throng,
"Who, scorning merit, idly grieve
"Such fairy scenes among.
"Far nobler prize my heart constrains,
"Yielding to soft controul;
"Far other beauty binds in chains
"The magnet of my soul.
"The gaudy saunt'ring throng,
"Who, scorning merit, idly grieve
"Such fairy scenes among.
"Far nobler prize my heart constrains,
"Yielding to soft controul;
"Far other beauty binds in chains
"The magnet of my soul.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "chain" and "soul" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
01/11/2012
