"Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, / Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, / These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd, / Make, and maintain, the balance of the mind."
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Author
Date
1733-4
Metaphor
"Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, / Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, / These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd, / Make, and maintain, the balance of the mind."
Metaphor in Context
Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train,
Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain,
These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd,
Make, and maintain, the balance of the mind:
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife
Gives all the strength and colour of our life.
(Epistle II, ll. 117-22)
Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain,
These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd,
Make, and maintain, the balance of the mind:
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife
Gives all the strength and colour of our life.
(Epistle II, ll. 117-22)
Provenance
HDIS
Citation
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations. Ed. John Butt. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.
Date of Entry
11/04/2003
