"Still crowding thoughts, a pensive train, / Rose in my soul"

— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)


Work Title
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Date
1787
Metaphor
"Still crowding thoughts, a pensive train, / Rose in my soul"
Metaphor in Context
Now Phoebe, in her midnight reign,
Dark-muffl'd, view'd the dreary plain;
Still crowding thoughts, a pensive train,
Rose in my soul
,
When on my ear this plaintive strain,
Slow-solemn, stole:--
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "crowd" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
03/07/2006

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