Blue-eyed Maid
Preserved but no longer current.
Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, is so called by Homer. Now Prudence gently pulled the poet's ear, And thus the daughter of the Blue-eyed Maid, In flattery's soothing sounds, divinely said, " O Peter, eldest-born of Phoebus, hear.
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “Blue-eyed Maid” mean?
Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, is so called by Homer. Now Prudence gently pulled the poet's ear, And thus the daughter of the Blue-eyed Maid, In flattery's soothing sounds, divinely said, " O Peter, eldest-born of Phoebus, hear.
Is “Blue-eyed Maid” formal or informal?
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