"By force the thirst of weakly sense is cloyed / Silent attend the frown, the gaze, the smile, / To grasp far objects with incessant toil; / So play life's springs with energy, and try / The unceasing thirst of knowledge to supply."

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

Author

Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

Work Title

To Mira, On Care of her Infant [from The Rural Lyre]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson
Date
1796
Metaphor
"By force the thirst of weakly sense is cloyed / Silent attend the frown, the gaze, the smile, / To grasp far objects with incessant toil; / So play life's springs with energy, and try / The unceasing thirst of knowledge to supply."
Metaphor in Context
MIRA, as thy dear Edward's senses grow,
Be sure they all will seek this point--to know:
Woo to enquiry--strictures long avoid;
By force the thirst of weakly sense is cloyed:
Silent attend the frown, the gaze, the smile,
To grasp far objects with incessant toil;
So play life's springs with energy, and try
The unceasing thirst of knowledge to supply.
(ll. 1-8, p. 398 in Lonsdale)
Categories
Body::Eating and Drinking::Thirst
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC

Ann Yearsley, The Rural Lyre: a Volume of Poems Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bristol, Lord Bishop of Derry (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>

Reading Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Date of Entry
07/29/2003
Date of Review
07/20/2011

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