"Better by far in lonesome den / To sleep unheard-of--than to glow / With treacherous wildfire of then brain, / Th' intoxicated poet's bane."
— Knight, Henrietta [née St John], Lady Luxborough (1699-1756)
Date
1755
Metaphor
"Better by far in lonesome den / To sleep unheard-of--than to glow / With treacherous wildfire of then brain, / Th' intoxicated poet's bane."
Metaphor in Context
Say, shall we Morpheus next implore,
And try if dreams befriend us more?
Wisely at least he'll stop my pen,
And with his poppies crown my brow:
Better by far in lonesome den
To sleep unheard-of--than to glow
With treacherous wildfire of then brain,
Th' intoxicated poet's bane.
(ll. 5-12, p. 219)
And try if dreams befriend us more?
Wisely at least he'll stop my pen,
And with his poppies crown my brow:
Better by far in lonesome den
To sleep unheard-of--than to glow
With treacherous wildfire of then brain,
Th' intoxicated poet's bane.
(ll. 5-12, p. 219)
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Citation
Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
07/23/2003
