"At modern Rome an easy Nymph was bred / In tender tales & soft Romances read / These on the brain a wild impression brought / & made her sure she saw what ere she thought."

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)


Date
w. 1702-1713, published 1989
Metaphor
"At modern Rome an easy Nymph was bred / In tender tales & soft Romances read / These on the brain a wild impression brought / & made her sure she saw what ere she thought."
Metaphor in Context
At modern Rome an easy Nymph was bred
In tender tales & soft Romances read
These on the brain a wild impression brought
& made her sure she saw what ere she thought

Within her Fancy shady groves were reard
& Dancing nymphs & piping swains appeard
Complaints were heard rewarded passions glowd
A plain extended & a river flowd
But Soon Alas her friends successfull care
from the sweet frenzy disengagd ye fair
Untimely friends restore my Joys again
Restore my grove my river & my plain
She often cryd & often cryd in vain
Till a bright youth with skill to manage came
Who while he fed her fancy raisd her flame
Then the fond creature lost her heedless heart
In making Celia's answer Damons part.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "brain" and "impression" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
C. J. Rawson and F. P. Lock, ed. Collected poems of Thomas Parnell (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1987): 385-7.
Date of Entry
05/18/2005
Date of Review
12/03/2008

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.