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Oh my! On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Catherine Butler <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > How about Barnabe Barnes, 'Parthenophil and Parthenope' 63? > > Jove for Europa's love, took shape of Bull; > And for Calisto, played Diana's part: > And in a golden shower he filled full > The lap of Danae, with celestial art. > Would I were changed but to my Mistress' gloves, > That those white lovely fingers I might hide! > That I might kiss those hands, which mine heart loves! > Or else that chain of pearl (her neck's vain pride) > Made proud with her neck's veins, that I might fold > About that lovely neck, and her paps tickle! > Or her to compass, like a belt of gold! > Or that sweet wine which down her throat doth trickle, > To kiss her lips, and lie next at her heart, > Run through her veins, and pass by Pleasure's part! > > Cathy > > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:35 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>