"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone / Can bid the tumult cease, / Restore reason to it's throne / His bosom to it's peace."
— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Dilly
Date
January 13, 1796
Metaphor
"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone / Can bid the tumult cease, / Restore reason to it's throne / His bosom to it's peace."
Metaphor in Context
LOTHAIRE
You may suppose it address'd to some warrior, who being lost to his country, and buried in profound melancholy, the poet strives to rouse him by the following strain.
"Where is that tow'ring spirit fled
"Which zeal heroic fir'd?
"Is that creative genius dead
"Which every muse inspir'd?
"Is it in grief's o'erwhelming tide
"That ardent fire was lost;
"Or have those senses turn'd aside,
"In love severely crost?
"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone
"Can bid the tumult cease,
"Restore his reason to it's throne,
"His bosom to it's peace.
"The turbid passions shall retire
"Before the minstrel's art,
"And the same hand that sweeps the lyre
"Shall heal the stricken heart."
You may suppose it address'd to some warrior, who being lost to his country, and buried in profound melancholy, the poet strives to rouse him by the following strain.
"Where is that tow'ring spirit fled
"Which zeal heroic fir'd?
"Is that creative genius dead
"Which every muse inspir'd?
"Is it in grief's o'erwhelming tide
"That ardent fire was lost;
"Or have those senses turn'd aside,
"In love severely crost?
"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone
"Can bid the tumult cease,
"Restore his reason to it's throne,
"His bosom to it's peace.
"The turbid passions shall retire
"Before the minstrel's art,
"And the same hand that sweeps the lyre
"Shall heal the stricken heart."
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
First performed January 13, 1796. At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1796)
The Days of Yore: a Drama in Three Acts. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden (London: C. Dilly, 1796). <Link to ECCO>
The Days of Yore: a Drama in Three Acts. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden (London: C. Dilly, 1796). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/14/2004
