"Then tell me, is your soul intire? / Does wisdom calmly hold her throne? / Then can you question each desire, / Bid this remain, and that begone?"
— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Dodsley
Date
1745
Metaphor
"Then tell me, is your soul intire? / Does wisdom calmly hold her throne? / Then can you question each desire, / Bid this remain, and that begone?"
Metaphor in Context
Then tell me, is your soul intire?
Does wisdom calmly hold her throne?
Then can you question each desire,
Bid this remain, and that begone?
No tear half-starting from your eye?
No kindling blush you know not why?
No stealing sigh, nor stifled groan?
Does wisdom calmly hold her throne?
Then can you question each desire,
Bid this remain, and that begone?
No tear half-starting from your eye?
No kindling blush you know not why?
No stealing sigh, nor stifled groan?
Categories
Provenance
HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1745, 1760, 1772, 1773, 1777, 1779, 1783, 1788, 1790).
See Odes on Several Subjects. (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1745). <Link to ESTC><Link to ESTC>
See also Odes on Several Subjects. 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1760). <Link to ESTC>
Text found searching The Poems Of Mark Akenside (London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772). <Link to ESTC> [There titled "Ode III. To a Friend, Unsuccessful in Love."]
See Odes on Several Subjects. (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1745). <Link to ESTC><Link to ESTC>
See also Odes on Several Subjects. 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1760). <Link to ESTC>
Text found searching The Poems Of Mark Akenside (London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772). <Link to ESTC> [There titled "Ode III. To a Friend, Unsuccessful in Love."]
Date of Entry
07/28/2004
Date of Review
06/13/2011
