Thoughts may "transcend all the Bounds of Air, / And like a blazing Comet ... inflame my Sphere."
— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by J. Heptinstall, for Henry Dickenson
Date
1693
Metaphor
Thoughts may "transcend all the Bounds of Air, / And like a blazing Comet ... inflame my Sphere."
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.
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.
Categories
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>
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
