"Passions that now are but illusive deem'd, / Then shall their empire in thy heart attain"
— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
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Work Title
Date
1807, 1810
Metaphor
"Passions that now are but illusive deem'd, / Then shall their empire in thy heart attain"
Metaphor in Context
When Youth and Art's proud summit thou shalt gain,
Passions that now are but illusive deem'd,
Then shall their empire in thy heart attain,
Then be what long, by miracle, they seem'd:
And when they glow in all their genuine fire,
Deeply are felt as gloriously pourtray'd,
O! may they nought in actual life inspire
That can thy virtue, or thy peace invade!
Passions that now are but illusive deem'd,
Then shall their empire in thy heart attain,
Then be what long, by miracle, they seem'd:
And when they glow in all their genuine fire,
Deeply are felt as gloriously pourtray'd,
O! may they nought in actual life inspire
That can thy virtue, or thy peace invade!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "empire" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry); found again in Google Books.
Citation
Found in The Lady's Magazine (London: C. Robinson, September 1807), p. 499. <Link to Google Books>
Text from The Poetical Works of Anna Seward; with Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence. ed. Walter Scott. 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co., 1810).
Text from The Poetical Works of Anna Seward; with Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence. ed. Walter Scott. 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co., 1810).
Date of Entry
08/22/2004
