"New to each hour what low delight succeeds, / What precious furniture of hearts and heads!"
— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Author
Work Title
Date
1745
Metaphor
"New to each hour what low delight succeeds, / What precious furniture of hearts and heads!"
Metaphor in Context
For silver streams and banks bespread with flowers,
For mossy couches and harmonious bowers,
Lo! barren heaths appear, and pathless woods,
And rocks hung dreadful o'er unfathom'd floods:
For openness of heart, for tender smiles,
Looks fraught with love, and wrath-disarming wiles;
Lo! sullen Spite, and perjur'd Lust of Gain,
And cruel Pride, and crueller Disdain;
Lo! cordial Faith to idiot airs refin'd,
Now coolly civil, now transporting kind.
For graceful Ease, lo! Affectation walks;
And dull Half-sense, for Wit and Wisdom talks.
New to each hour what low delight succeeds,
What precious furniture of hearts and heads!
By nought their prudence, but by getting, known,
And all their courage in deceiving shown.
For mossy couches and harmonious bowers,
Lo! barren heaths appear, and pathless woods,
And rocks hung dreadful o'er unfathom'd floods:
For openness of heart, for tender smiles,
Looks fraught with love, and wrath-disarming wiles;
Lo! sullen Spite, and perjur'd Lust of Gain,
And cruel Pride, and crueller Disdain;
Lo! cordial Faith to idiot airs refin'd,
Now coolly civil, now transporting kind.
For graceful Ease, lo! Affectation walks;
And dull Half-sense, for Wit and Wisdom talks.
New to each hour what low delight succeeds,
What precious furniture of hearts and heads!
By nought their prudence, but by getting, known,
And all their courage in deceiving shown.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "furniture" in HDIS (Poetry); found again "head"
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
