"A Voice there is, that whispers in my ear, / ('Tis Reason's voice, which sometimes one can hear)."
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Author
Date
w. 1737, published 1738
Metaphor
"A Voice there is, that whispers in my ear, / ('Tis Reason's voice, which sometimes one can hear)."
Metaphor in Context
A Voice there is, that whispers in my ear,
('Tis Reason's voice, which sometimes one can hear)
"Friend Pope! be prudent, let your Muse take breath,
"And never gallop Pegasus to death;
"Lest stiff, and stately, void of fire, and force,
"You limp, like Blackmore, on a Lord Mayor's horse.'
(p. 625, ll. 11-16)
('Tis Reason's voice, which sometimes one can hear)
"Friend Pope! be prudent, let your Muse take breath,
"And never gallop Pegasus to death;
"Lest stiff, and stately, void of fire, and force,
"You limp, like Blackmore, on a Lord Mayor's horse.'
(p. 625, ll. 11-16)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
See The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963), 624-34.
Date of Entry
02/01/2012
