"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns"
— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. B. and Sold by Benj. Tooke ... William Taylor ... and James Round [etc.]
Date
1713
Metaphor
"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns"
Metaphor in Context
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns:
Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains
Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule maintains.
Tho' beyond Love's, Ambition's Empire goes;
For who feels Love, Ambition also knows,
And proudly still aspires to be possest
Of Her, he thinks superior to the rest.
As cou'd be prov'd, but that our plainer Task
Do's no such Toil, or Definitions ask;
But to be so rehears'd, as first 'twas told,
When such old Stories pleas'd in Days of old.
Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains
Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule maintains.
Tho' beyond Love's, Ambition's Empire goes;
For who feels Love, Ambition also knows,
And proudly still aspires to be possest
Of Her, he thinks superior to the rest.
As cou'd be prov'd, but that our plainer Task
Do's no such Toil, or Definitions ask;
But to be so rehears'd, as first 'twas told,
When such old Stories pleas'd in Days of old.
Provenance
Searching HDIS (Poetry)
Theme
Ruling Passion
Date of Entry
06/15/2004
