Читать книгу Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 - Various - Страница 4
PARNELL
ОглавлениеThe following verses by Parnell are not included in any edition of his poems that I have seen. They are printed in Steele's Miscellany (12mo. 1714), p. 63., and in the second edition of the same Miscellany (12mo. 1727), p. 51., with Parnell's name, and, what is more, on both occasions among other poems by the same author.
TO A YOUNG LADY
On her Translation of the Story of Phoebus and Daphne, from Ovid.
In Phoebus, Wit (as Ovid said)
Enchanting Beauty woo'd;
In Daphne beauty coily fled,
While vainly Wit pursu'd.
But when you trace what Ovid writ,
A diff'rent turn we view;
Beauty no longer flies from Wit,
Since both are join'd in you.
Your lines the wond'rous change impart,
From whence our laurels spring;
In numbers fram'd to please the heart,
And merit what they sing.
Methinks thy poet's gentle shade
Its wreath presents to thee;
What Daphne owes you as a Maid,
She pays you as a Tree.
The charming poem by the same author, beginning—
"My days have been so wond'rous free,"
has the additional fourth stanza,—
"An eager hope within my breast,
Does ev'ry doubt controul,
And charming Nancy stands confest
The fav'rite of my soul."
Can any of your readers supply the name of the "young lady" who translated the story of Phoebus and Daphne?
C.P.
