""Kind melting Kisses, modest, yet desiring, / May raise to Life a Passion Just expiring; / And he's a Monster Affrick ne're saw, / Whose frozen Mind such kind Heats cannot thaw."
— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Richard Baldwin
Date
1692
Metaphor
""Kind melting Kisses, modest, yet desiring, / May raise to Life a Passion Just expiring; / And he's a Monster Affrick ne're saw, / Whose frozen Mind such kind Heats cannot thaw."
Metaphor in Context
But ah! the young and lovely Bride too soon
Perceives the waining of the Hony-Moon:
Her Passion by Indearments still improves,
And till the more enjoy'd, the more she loves;
While the ingrateful Wretch she Husband calls,
By little flights shews how his Fancy palls,
By frequent use grown weary of her Charms,
He comes with dull Indifference to her Arms.
If here the Humour stops, some hopes are left,
(Provided he's not of all sense bereft;)
By Arts of kind Indearments to recover,
Th'expiring Passion of the Husband Lover.
Wild Beasts by roughness may endure the Chain,
But milder means are us'd to soften Man:
Kind melting Kisses, modest, yet desiring,
May raise to Life a Passion Just expiring;
And he's a Monster Affrick ne're saw,
Whose frozen Mind such kind Heats cannot thaw.
(p. 15, ll. 345-262)
Perceives the waining of the Hony-Moon:
Her Passion by Indearments still improves,
And till the more enjoy'd, the more she loves;
While the ingrateful Wretch she Husband calls,
By little flights shews how his Fancy palls,
By frequent use grown weary of her Charms,
He comes with dull Indifference to her Arms.
If here the Humour stops, some hopes are left,
(Provided he's not of all sense bereft;)
By Arts of kind Indearments to recover,
Th'expiring Passion of the Husband Lover.
Wild Beasts by roughness may endure the Chain,
But milder means are us'd to soften Man:
Kind melting Kisses, modest, yet desiring,
May raise to Life a Passion Just expiring;
And he's a Monster Affrick ne're saw,
Whose frozen Mind such kind Heats cannot thaw.
(p. 15, ll. 345-262)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" in C-H Lion
Citation
Three entries in ESTC (1692, 1697, 1698).
Richard Ames, Sylvia's Complaint, of her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem. Being the Second Part of Sylvia's Revenge, or, a Satyr against Man (London: Printed by Richard Baldwin, 1692). <Link to EEBO>
Richard Ames, Sylvia's Complaint, of her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem. Being the Second Part of Sylvia's Revenge, or, a Satyr against Man (London: Printed by Richard Baldwin, 1692). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
07/24/2013
