"He sprinkles healing Balmes, to Anguish kind, / And adds Discourse, the Med'cine of the Mind."
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott
Date
1715-1720
Metaphor
"He sprinkles healing Balmes, to Anguish kind, / And adds Discourse, the Med'cine of the Mind."
Metaphor in Context
While thus the Thunder of the Battel rag'd,
And lab'ring Armies round the Works engag'd;
Still in the Tent Patroclus sate, to tend
The good Eurypylus, his wounded Friend.
He sprinkles healing Balmes, to Anguish kind,
And adds Discourse, the Med'cine of the Mind.
But when he saw, ascending up the Fleet,
Victorious Troy: Then, starting from his Seat,
With bitter Groans his Sorrows he exprest,
He wrings his Hands, he beats his manly Breast.
Tho' yet thy State require Redress (he cries)
Depart I must: What Horrors strike my Eyes?
Charg'd with Achilles' high Commands I go,
A mournful Witness of this Scene of Woe:
I haste to urge him, by his Country's Care,
To rise in Arms, and shine again in War.
Perhaps some fav'ring God his Soul may bend;
The Voice is pow'rful of a faithful Friend.
And lab'ring Armies round the Works engag'd;
Still in the Tent Patroclus sate, to tend
The good Eurypylus, his wounded Friend.
He sprinkles healing Balmes, to Anguish kind,
And adds Discourse, the Med'cine of the Mind.
But when he saw, ascending up the Fleet,
Victorious Troy: Then, starting from his Seat,
With bitter Groans his Sorrows he exprest,
He wrings his Hands, he beats his manly Breast.
Tho' yet thy State require Redress (he cries)
Depart I must: What Horrors strike my Eyes?
Charg'd with Achilles' high Commands I go,
A mournful Witness of this Scene of Woe:
I haste to urge him, by his Country's Care,
To rise in Arms, and shine again in War.
Perhaps some fav'ring God his Soul may bend;
The Voice is pow'rful of a faithful Friend.
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Provenance
HDIS
Citation
17 entries in ESTC (1715, 1718, 1720, 1721, 1729, 1732, 1736, 1738, 1754, 1767, 1770, 1790, 1791, 1796). Vol. 2 is dated 1716; vol. 3, 1717; vol. 4, 1718; vols. 5 and 6, 1720.
See The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope, 6 vols. (London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott, 1715-1720). <Link to ESTC><Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Vol. II><Vol. III><Vol. IV><Vol. V><Vol. VI>
See The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope, 6 vols. (London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott, 1715-1720). <Link to ESTC><Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Vol. II><Vol. III><Vol. IV><Vol. V><Vol. VI>
Date of Entry
10/26/2003
