"Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known, / Too long to Love hath reason left her throne; / Too long my genius mourn'd his myrtle chain, / And three rich years of youth consum'd in vain."
— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Author
Work Title
Date
1745
Metaphor
"Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known, / Too long to Love hath reason left her throne; / Too long my genius mourn'd his myrtle chain, / And three rich years of youth consum'd in vain."
Metaphor in Context
Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known,
Too long to Love hath reason left her throne;
Too long my genius mourn'd his myrtle chain,
And three rich years of youth consum'd in vain.
My wishes, lull'd with soft inglorious dreams,
Forgot the patriot's and the sage's themes:
Through each Elysian vale and fairy grove,
Through all the enchanted paradise of love,
Misled by sickly hope's deceitful flame,
Averse to action, and renouncing fame.
Too long to Love hath reason left her throne;
Too long my genius mourn'd his myrtle chain,
And three rich years of youth consum'd in vain.
My wishes, lull'd with soft inglorious dreams,
Forgot the patriot's and the sage's themes:
Through each Elysian vale and fairy grove,
Through all the enchanted paradise of love,
Misled by sickly hope's deceitful flame,
Averse to action, and renouncing fame.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 8 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1745, 1748, 1781, 1783, 1784, 1790, 1795, 1800).
See On Love, an Elegy. ([London?] : [s.n.], Printed in the Year MDCCXLV. [1745]). <Link to ESTC> [Not attributed to Akenside.]
Text from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. Illustrated by Birket Foster (London--New York: George Routledge and Co., 1855). <Link to LION>
See On Love, an Elegy. ([London?] : [s.n.], Printed in the Year MDCCXLV. [1745]). <Link to ESTC> [Not attributed to Akenside.]
Text from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. Illustrated by Birket Foster (London--New York: George Routledge and Co., 1855). <Link to LION>
Date of Entry
07/19/2004
Date of Review
10/16/2006
