"That the young sorcerer's fatal hand / Should round my soul his pleasing fetters tie."
— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Dodsley
Date
1760
Metaphor
"That the young sorcerer's fatal hand / Should round my soul his pleasing fetters tie."
Metaphor in Context
I ask not, god of dreams, thy care
To banish Love's presentments fair:
Nor rosy cheek nor radiant eye
Can arm him with such influence bland
That the young sorcerer's fatal hand
Should round my soul his pleasing fetters tie.
Nor yet the courtier's hope, the giving smile
(A lighter phantom, and a baser chain)
Did e'er in slumber my proud lyre beguile
To lend the pomp of thrones her ill-according strain.
(pp. 44-5; cf. variant text in 1772 ed.)
To banish Love's presentments fair:
Nor rosy cheek nor radiant eye
Can arm him with such influence bland
That the young sorcerer's fatal hand
Should round my soul his pleasing fetters tie.
Nor yet the courtier's hope, the giving smile
(A lighter phantom, and a baser chain)
Did e'er in slumber my proud lyre beguile
To lend the pomp of thrones her ill-according strain.
(pp. 44-5; cf. variant text in 1772 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
12 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1760, 1772, 1773, 1779, 1788, 1790, 1795, 1800).
Text from Odes on Several Subjects. 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1760). <Link to ESTC> [Metaphor doesn't appear in first edition]
Text found searching The Poems Of Mark Akenside (London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772). <Link to ESTC>[There titled "Ode II. To Sleep"]
Text from Odes on Several Subjects. 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1760). <Link to ESTC> [Metaphor doesn't appear in first edition]
Text found searching The Poems Of Mark Akenside (London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772). <Link to ESTC>[There titled "Ode II. To Sleep"]
Date of Entry
08/25/2004
Date of Review
06/26/2011
