"For should I let these Thoughts but rove / They'd fix upon Tyrannick Love."

— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by J. Heptinstall, for Henry Dickenson
Date
1693
Metaphor
"For should I let these Thoughts but rove / They'd fix upon Tyrannick Love."
Metaphor in Context
When Reason with her Robes ascends the Throne,
And wisely all my scatter'd Thoughts calls home,
  The Messenger is so divine,
  Unto her Laws I must resign,
  For should I let these Thoughts but rove
  They'd fix upon Tyrannick Love
;
  They'd transcend all the Bounds of Air,
And like a blazing Comet wou'd inflame my Sphere.
Provenance
HDIS
Citation
Only one entry in the ESTC.

Poems upon Several Occasions by Benj. Hawkshaw (London: Printed by J. Heptinstall, for Henry Dickenson, 1693). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Theme
Wandering
Date of Entry
07/16/2004

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.