To Shakespeare's illumined sight was consigned "The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast"
— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1791, 1806
Metaphor
To Shakespeare's illumined sight was consigned "The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast"
Metaphor in Context
To his illumin'd sight was then consign'd
The deep recesses of the Human Mind;
The ever-varying path of tortuous Art,
And the dark passage to the Tyrant's heart;
Th' umbrageous winding of the thorny road,
That leads to quick-ey'd Jealousy's abode;
The gath'ring storms that o'er Resentment roll;
The swelling waves that toss the fearful soul;
The calm that breathes around the Infant's rest,
The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast;
The dread materials by the Furies brought,
With which are forg'd Despair's tempestuous thought;
The shaft, that, mingling pleasure with the pain,
Bathes in the blood that warms the Lover's vein.
The deep recesses of the Human Mind;
The ever-varying path of tortuous Art,
And the dark passage to the Tyrant's heart;
Th' umbrageous winding of the thorny road,
That leads to quick-ey'd Jealousy's abode;
The gath'ring storms that o'er Resentment roll;
The swelling waves that toss the fearful soul;
The calm that breathes around the Infant's rest,
The rugged cavern of the Murd'rer's breast;
The dread materials by the Furies brought,
With which are forg'd Despair's tempestuous thought;
The shaft, that, mingling pleasure with the pain,
Bathes in the blood that warms the Lover's vein.
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Provenance
Searching "breast" and "cave" in HDIS (Poetry);
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1791).
Text from Poems and Plays, by Mr. Jerningham. 4 vols, 9th ed. (London: Printed by Luke Hansard for Nornaville and Fell, 1806).
See The Shakspeare Gallery, a Poem. By Mr. Jerningham. (London : Printed for J. Robson, New Bond-Street, 1791).
Text from Poems and Plays, by Mr. Jerningham. 4 vols, 9th ed. (London: Printed by Luke Hansard for Nornaville and Fell, 1806).
See The Shakspeare Gallery, a Poem. By Mr. Jerningham. (London : Printed for J. Robson, New Bond-Street, 1791).
Date of Entry
01/18/2006
