"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Johnson ... by T. Bensley
Date
1803
Metaphor
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
Metaphor in Context
"There writhing Mania sits on Reason's throne,
Or Melancholy marks it for her own,
Sheds o'er the scene a voluntary gloom,
Requests oblivion, and demands the tomb.
And last Association's trains suggest
Ideal ills, that harrow up the breast,
Call for the dead from Time's o'erwhelming main,
And bid departed Sorrow live again.
Or Melancholy marks it for her own,
Sheds o'er the scene a voluntary gloom,
Requests oblivion, and demands the tomb.
And last Association's trains suggest
Ideal ills, that harrow up the breast,
Call for the dead from Time's o'erwhelming main,
And bid departed Sorrow live again.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
07/19/2004
