"In my mind's eye with joy the heights I see; / For Middlesex! my soul exults in thee!"
— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Work Title
Date
1773, 1810
Metaphor
"In my mind's eye with joy the heights I see; / For Middlesex! my soul exults in thee!"
Metaphor in Context
Hampstead and Highgate northward close the scene,
They front my hill; a world of sweets between!
In my mind's eye with joy the heights I see;
For Middlesex! my soul exults in thee!
Thy sons, at freedom's call, would rouse the land,
Should kings aspire to absolute command;
Boldly the rights of Englishmen would claim,
Would catch a Russel's or a Sydney's flame.
They front my hill; a world of sweets between!
In my mind's eye with joy the heights I see;
For Middlesex! my soul exults in thee!
Thy sons, at freedom's call, would rouse the land,
Should kings aspire to absolute command;
Boldly the rights of Englishmen would claim,
Would catch a Russel's or a Sydney's flame.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "eye" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1773).
Text from The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale. 2 vols. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and W. Clarke, By W. Pople, 1810).
See The Poet. A Poem. (London : printed for W. Flexney, opposite Gray’s-Inn-Gate, Holborn, 1773). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale. 2 vols. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and W. Clarke, By W. Pople, 1810).
See The Poet. A Poem. (London : printed for W. Flexney, opposite Gray’s-Inn-Gate, Holborn, 1773). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
04/18/2006
