"The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room / To range in Thought, and ramble far from home."
— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Rivington
Date
1734, 1735
Metaphor
"The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room / To range in Thought, and ramble far from home."
Metaphor in Context
Remote from Strife, from urban Throngs, and Noise.
Here dwells my Soul amidst domestic Joys:
No ratling Coaches serious Thoughts annoy;
Nor busy prating Fools my Peace destroy:
Wrapt up in all the Sweets of rural Ease,
My great Creator's Works my Senses please.
The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room
To range in Thought, and ramble far from home,
Others may court the Joys which Princes give,
Whilst I, in sacred Silence, truly live.
(cf. p. 230 in 1734 ed.)
Here dwells my Soul amidst domestic Joys:
No ratling Coaches serious Thoughts annoy;
Nor busy prating Fools my Peace destroy:
Wrapt up in all the Sweets of rural Ease,
My great Creator's Works my Senses please.
The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room
To range in Thought, and ramble far from home,
Others may court the Joys which Princes give,
Whilst I, in sacred Silence, truly live.
(cf. p. 230 in 1734 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "room" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1734, 1735, 1736).
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed [by Samuel Richardson] for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1734). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1735). <Link to ESTC>
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed [by Samuel Richardson] for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1734). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1735). <Link to ESTC>
Theme
Wandering
Date of Entry
08/29/2005
