"Intestine war no more our passions wage; / E'en giddy factions hear away their rage."
— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date
1862
Metaphor
"Intestine war no more our passions wage; / E'en giddy factions hear away their rage."
Metaphor in Context
Behold how Pope in genuine beauty shines,
And sings harmonious his unborrow'd lines:
"Intestine war no more our passions wage;
E'en giddy factions hear away their rage."
His bullion is; thine, wire alone:
The colour stays, the weight is gone.
"Some secret power the storm restrains,"
You tell us, "when the tempest reigns."
Know you not, then, the Power who bade it blow,
And taught the' obedient surges where to flow?
The God who made the seas, alone, can say,
"Hither, ye billows, roll; and here, thou whirlwind, stay!"
And sings harmonious his unborrow'd lines:
"Intestine war no more our passions wage;
E'en giddy factions hear away their rage."
His bullion is; thine, wire alone:
The colour stays, the weight is gone.
"Some secret power the storm restrains,"
You tell us, "when the tempest reigns."
Know you not, then, the Power who bade it blow,
And taught the' obedient surges where to flow?
The God who made the seas, alone, can say,
"Hither, ye billows, roll; and here, thou whirlwind, stay!"
Categories
Provenance
Searching "faction" and "passion" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Poems on Several Occasions. By Samuel Wesley. A New Edition, Including Many Pieces Never Before Published. Edited, and Illustrated With Copious Notes, by the Late James Nichols. With a Life of the Author by William Nichols. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1862).
Date of Entry
08/24/2004
