"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Place of Publication
Kingston, Jamaica
Publisher
Joseph Thompson
Date
1773
Metaphor
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
Metaphor in Context
There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh,
In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring
The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye,
That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing.
In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring
The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye,
That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "eye" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1773).
See Persian Love Elegies. To which is Added The Nymph of Tauris. (Kingston: From the press of Joseph Thompson and Co., 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
See Persian Love Elegies. To which is Added The Nymph of Tauris. (Kingston: From the press of Joseph Thompson and Co., 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
04/18/2006
