"Delusion o'er my Mind usurps Command, / And rules each Sense with Fancy's magic Wand."
— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
Date
1762, 1781
Metaphor
"Delusion o'er my Mind usurps Command, / And rules each Sense with Fancy's magic Wand."
Metaphor in Context
And if, when Cynthia, rob'd in paler Light,
Revists Mortals, and directs the Night,
My weary'd Strength the general Slumber shares,
The Soul reflecting wakes to all her Cares:
Delusion o'er my Mind usurps Command,
And rules each Sense with Fancy's magic Wand.
One Moment Tidings of Forgiveness brings,
Descending Mercy spreads her Cherub Wings;
Our Guards are vanish'd, ev'ry Grief effac'd.--
O Bliss supreme!--but too supreme to last;
Ere Words can find their Way, the Vision's past:
It fleets, I call it back,--it will not hear,
And fearful Shadows in it's [sic] Place appear.
The unrelenting Queen stalks fiercely by,
Fate oon her Brow, and Fury in her Eye.
[...]
(p. 4)
Revists Mortals, and directs the Night,
My weary'd Strength the general Slumber shares,
The Soul reflecting wakes to all her Cares:
Delusion o'er my Mind usurps Command,
And rules each Sense with Fancy's magic Wand.
One Moment Tidings of Forgiveness brings,
Descending Mercy spreads her Cherub Wings;
Our Guards are vanish'd, ev'ry Grief effac'd.--
O Bliss supreme!--but too supreme to last;
Ere Words can find their Way, the Vision's past:
It fleets, I call it back,--it will not hear,
And fearful Shadows in it's [sic] Place appear.
The unrelenting Queen stalks fiercely by,
Fate oon her Brow, and Fury in her Eye.
[...]
(p. 4)
Categories
Provenance
Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1762, 1781, 1789, 1797).
First printed as An Epistle from Lady Jane Gray to Lord Guilford Dudley. Supposed to Have Been Written in the Tower, a Few Days Before They Suffered. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1762). <Link to ESTC>
Text from George Keate, The Poetical Works of George Keate 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1781). <Link to vol. II in Google Books>
Found also in Bell's Fugitive Poetry (1789, 1797). Finding also excerpts in Songs. Elegiac. Sea. (1796, 1799).
First printed as An Epistle from Lady Jane Gray to Lord Guilford Dudley. Supposed to Have Been Written in the Tower, a Few Days Before They Suffered. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1762). <Link to ESTC>
Text from George Keate, The Poetical Works of George Keate 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1781). <Link to vol. II in Google Books>
Found also in Bell's Fugitive Poetry (1789, 1797). Finding also excerpts in Songs. Elegiac. Sea. (1796, 1799).
Date of Entry
05/24/2004
Date of Review
08/17/2005
