"He spoke: a sudden cloud his senses stole, / And thickening darkness swam o'er all his soul"

— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)


Date
1772, 1810
Metaphor
"He spoke: a sudden cloud his senses stole, / And thickening darkness swam o'er all his soul"
Metaphor in Context
He spoke: a sudden cloud his senses stole,
And thickening darkness swam o'er all his soul
;
His vital spark her earthly cell forsook,
And into air her fleeting progress took.
(II, p. 160, ll. 357-360)
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Written in 1769. 3 entries for Poems in ESTC (1772, 1774, 1777).

Text from The Poetical Works of William Jones. With the Life of the author, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Nichols and Son; R. Baldwin, 1810).

See also Poems: Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages (Altenbrugh: Gottlob Emanuel Richter, 1774).<Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
08/17/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.