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See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek! On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Sean Henry <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks, Joel---that's excellent. I'll pass that passage along to my friend > in Scotland upon whose behalf I was asking. > > Perhaps I'll pose my friend's question here: "I'm trying to remember a > poem wherein the poet wishes he were a necklace so he could hang between > his mistress's cleavage. Tell me I'm not making it up, and better yet tell > me what it is!" > > Suggestions have thus far included Herrick's "The Vine," Tennyson's "The > Miller's Daughter," The Song of Solomon 1:13, the Prince of Wales's > yearning to be an item of feminine hygiene, and Bryan Adams's song "I Wanna > Be Your Underwear." I wonder whether anyone can think of other examples of > this wishing trope. > > Sean. > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Joel Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Sorry for the late response and for cross-posting; I can't recall which >> list had this query. >> >> In Sidney's *Old Arcadia*, the initial description of Pamela meets the >> criteria exactly: >> *betwixt her breasts, which sweetly rase up like two fair mountainets in >> the pleasant vale of Tempe, there hanged down a jewel which she had devised >> as a picture of her own estate. It was a perfect white lamb tied at a stake >> with a great number of chains, as it had been feared lest the silly >> creature should do some great harm; neither had she added any word unto it, >> but even took silence as the word of the poor lamb, showing such humbleness >> as not to use her own voice for complaint of her misery.* >> --Robertson edition, 1973, p. 37 >> >> Joel B Davis >> Professor and Nell Carlton Chair >> English Department >> Stetson University >> 421 N Woodland Blvd Unit 8300 >> DeLand, FL 32723 >> 386.822.7720 >> http://www.stetson.edu/other/faculty/profiles/joel-davis.php >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------- > Sean Henry, B.A., M.A., PhD. > Lecturer, Department of English > University of Victoria, B.C., Canada > [log in to unmask] > -- David Lee Miller University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803) 777-4256 FAX 777-9064 [log in to unmask] Center for Digital Humanities <http://www.cdh.sc.edu/> Faculty Web Page <http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/people/pages/miller.html>