"Reason holds her lamp no more; / Save that sometimes, with glimmering light, / She gives thy misery to thy sight"
— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Work Title
Date
1810
Metaphor
"Reason holds her lamp no more; / Save that sometimes, with glimmering light, / She gives thy misery to thy sight"
Metaphor in Context
There mute the awful changeling sits!
Tremble ye poets, patriots, wits!
See talents in their living tomb;
Yet once how brightly did they bloom!
And are thy soul's effusions o'er?
Yes; Reason holds her lamp no more;
Save that sometimes, with glimmering light,
She gives thy misery to thy sight.
Tremble ye poets, patriots, wits!
See talents in their living tomb;
Yet once how brightly did they bloom!
And are thy soul's effusions o'er?
Yes; Reason holds her lamp no more;
Save that sometimes, with glimmering light,
She gives thy misery to thy sight.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "lamp" in HDIS (Poetry); found again "reason"
Citation
Text from The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale. 2 vols. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and W. Clarke, By W. Pople, 1810).
Date of Entry
01/19/2006
