"These modern Sapphos are conceited creatures, / They sport their thoughts as others do their features; / These but coquette it with a different part, / And seize the head, while others charm the heart."
— Falconar, Maria (b. 1771-) and Harriet (b. 1774-)
Work Title
Date
1791
Metaphor
"These modern Sapphos are conceited creatures, / They sport their thoughts as others do their features; / These but coquette it with a different part, / And seize the head, while others charm the heart."
Metaphor in Context
These modern Sapphos are conceited creatures,
They sport their thoughts as others do their features;
These but coquette it with a different part,
And seize the head, while others charm the heart.
(ll. 15-8, p. 452)
They sport their thoughts as others do their features;
These but coquette it with a different part,
And seize the head, while others charm the heart.
(ll. 15-8, p. 452)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989).
Date of Entry
07/29/2003
Date of Review
06/09/2009
