"A thousand Fears invade / And fill my Mind with Pain"
— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Mc Euen in Edinburgh, and for T. Cox
Date
1719
Metaphor
"A thousand Fears invade / And fill my Mind with Pain"
Metaphor in Context
What Pow'r, O Death, and Influence
Is this thou hast upon my Soul?
My Reason offers small Defence,
And is not able to controll
The mighty Fears which in my Mind arise,
When Fancy shapes thee in her gazing Eyes.
For tho' at Distance thy tremendous Shade
Is pictur'd in my Brain,
A thousand Fears invade
And fill my Mind with Pain.
Where'er I go the gloomy Grave,
The Terror of the Great and Brave,
Is still the Subject of my pensive Thought:
Before my Fancy evermore I view
The dire and melancholy Draught
Which, as I fly, doth at my Heels pursue;
And e'er I am aware,
The Phantom frustrates all my Care,
And into sad Subjection I am always brought.
Is this thou hast upon my Soul?
My Reason offers small Defence,
And is not able to controll
The mighty Fears which in my Mind arise,
When Fancy shapes thee in her gazing Eyes.
For tho' at Distance thy tremendous Shade
Is pictur'd in my Brain,
A thousand Fears invade
And fill my Mind with Pain.
Where'er I go the gloomy Grave,
The Terror of the Great and Brave,
Is still the Subject of my pensive Thought:
Before my Fancy evermore I view
The dire and melancholy Draught
Which, as I fly, doth at my Heels pursue;
And e'er I am aware,
The Phantom frustrates all my Care,
And into sad Subjection I am always brought.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "invad" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Poems On several Grave and Important Subjects, Chiefly Occasion'd by the Death of the late Ingenious Youth John Mitchell. In Two Parts. With a General Preface by Appointment of an Athenian Society in Edinburgh (London: Printed for J. Mc Euen in Edinburgh, and for T. Cox, 1719).
Date of Entry
05/04/2005
