Soon shall thy arm, Unconquered
Steam afar
Drag the slow barge or drive the
Rapid car.
(E.V., Canto I, 289, 290)
In the same way all the plants, as classified by Linnæus, are personified as “swains” or “belles” who “love” and quarrel, and finally make it up just as ordinary mortals do:
All wan and shivering in the leafless glade
The sad Anemone reclin’d her head
(L.P., Canto I, 315-6)
or