"To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul, / And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream"

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

Author

Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

Work Title

Elegy [from Miscellanies in prose and verse; by Thomas Chatterton, the supposed author of the poems published under the names of Rowley, Canning, &c.]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Fielding and Walker
Date
1778
Metaphor
"To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul, / And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream"
Metaphor in Context
The bubbling brooks in plaintive murmurs roll,
The bird of omen, with incessant scream,
To melancholy thoughts awakes the soul,
And lulls the mind to contemplation's dream.
(p. 104)
Categories
Body::Awaking
Provenance
Searching in ECCO
Date of Entry
10/19/2005

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