"Or when the burnish'd car by Phoebus roll'd, / Darts more intense it's rays of liquid gold, / Beneath some ivy-fringed cave reclined, / Fancy's bright visions rushing on thy mind, / With spirits bland, nursed by the genial powers, / Soothest with melodious notes the sultry hours!"
— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Author
Place of Publication
Exeter
Publisher
Printed by W. Grigg
Date
1781, 1791
Metaphor
"Or when the burnish'd car by Phoebus roll'd, / Darts more intense it's rays of liquid gold, / Beneath some ivy-fringed cave reclined, / Fancy's bright visions rushing on thy mind, / With spirits bland, nursed by the genial powers, / Soothest with melodious notes the sultry hours!"
Metaphor in Context
O thou! who climb'st at morn the mountain high,
Viewing the impurpled east with joyful eye,
Thence with light step descending to the vale,
Imbibest with extasy the breezy gale!
Or piercing thro some covert yet untried,
Beating the moist, o'er-hanging boughs aside,
Still movest delighted on with nimble pace,
The sprinkled dew-drops glittering in thy face,
Listening the brook which idly brawls along,
And every plumed warbler's matin song!
Or when the burnish'd car by Phoebus roll'd,
Darts more intense it's rays of liquid gold,
Beneath some ivy-fringed cave reclined,
Fancy's bright visions rushing on thy mind,
With spirits bland, nursed by the genial powers,
Soothest with melodious notes the sultry hours!
Viewing the impurpled east with joyful eye,
Thence with light step descending to the vale,
Imbibest with extasy the breezy gale!
Or piercing thro some covert yet untried,
Beating the moist, o'er-hanging boughs aside,
Still movest delighted on with nimble pace,
The sprinkled dew-drops glittering in thy face,
Listening the brook which idly brawls along,
And every plumed warbler's matin song!
Or when the burnish'd car by Phoebus roll'd,
Darts more intense it's rays of liquid gold,
Beneath some ivy-fringed cave reclined,
Fancy's bright visions rushing on thy mind,
With spirits bland, nursed by the genial powers,
Soothest with melodious notes the sultry hours!
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1781, 1791, 1792).
Text from Poems to Thespia. To Which are Added, Sonnets, &c. (Exeter: Printed by R. Trewman and Son, 1791). <Link to ECCO>
See also Hugh Downman, Poems to Thespia (Exeter: Printed by W. Grigg, 1781). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems to Thespia. To Which are Added, Sonnets, &c. (Exeter: Printed by R. Trewman and Son, 1791). <Link to ECCO>
See also Hugh Downman, Poems to Thespia (Exeter: Printed by W. Grigg, 1781). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
01/18/2006
