Images may invade [the mind?]
— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
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Work Title
Date
1799
Metaphor
Images may invade [the mind?]
Metaphor in Context
Sonnet.
FROM a rived tree, that stands beside the grave
Of the self-slaughtered, to the misty moon
Calls the complaining owl in night's pale noon;
And from a hut, far on hill, to rave
Is heard the ban-dog. With loud wave
That roused and turbid river surges down,
Swoll'n with the mountatin-rains, and dimly shown
Appals the sense.--Yet see! from yonder cave,
Her shelter in the recent stormy showers,
With anxious brow, a fond-expecting maid
Steals towards the flood!--Alas!--for now appears
Her lover's vacant boat!--the broken oars
Roll down the tide!--What images invade!
Aghast she stands, the statue of her fears!
(ll.1-14, pp. 318-9)
FROM a rived tree, that stands beside the grave
Of the self-slaughtered, to the misty moon
Calls the complaining owl in night's pale noon;
And from a hut, far on hill, to rave
Is heard the ban-dog. With loud wave
That roused and turbid river surges down,
Swoll'n with the mountatin-rains, and dimly shown
Appals the sense.--Yet see! from yonder cave,
Her shelter in the recent stormy showers,
With anxious brow, a fond-expecting maid
Steals towards the flood!--Alas!--for now appears
Her lover's vacant boat!--the broken oars
Roll down the tide!--What images invade!
Aghast she stands, the statue of her fears!
(ll.1-14, pp. 318-9)
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Citation
Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
07/28/2003
