"Pythagoras saw Hesiod's Soul ty'd / To Brass-Pillars, wept and cry'd;"
— Dixon, Robert (1614/15-1688).
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by S. Roycroft, for Robert Clavell [etc.]
Date
1683
Metaphor
"Pythagoras saw Hesiod's Soul ty'd / To Brass-Pillars, wept and cry'd;"
Metaphor in Context
Physian Fields are aloft in the Moon,
The Sophister was up too soon.
Pythagoras saw Hesiod's Soul ty'd
To Brass-Pillars, wept and cry'd;
For fear like a new married Bride,
That had nothing to lose, beside
Her Maiden-head, which she could not hide.
And truly never was deny'd;
The Maid was willing, when she try'd;
The Sophister was up too soon.
Pythagoras saw Hesiod's Soul ty'd
To Brass-Pillars, wept and cry'd;
For fear like a new married Bride,
That had nothing to lose, beside
Her Maiden-head, which she could not hide.
And truly never was deny'd;
The Maid was willing, when she try'd;
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/07/2005
