Note 239 — Chapter VII · PERSONIFICATION AND ABSTRACTION IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY
Reading edition
There are faint personifications of the other seasons in Book III, ll. 427 foll., but none perhaps as effective as William Mickle had already given in his ode, “Vicissitude,” where he depicts Winter staying:
his creeping steps to pause And wishful turns his icy eyes On April meads.