"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Author
Place of Publication
York
Publisher
Printed by W. Blanchard [etc.]
Date
w. 1766, 1797
Metaphor
"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
Metaphor in Context
SEW.
Hapless youth!
Have I then all in vain pour'd on thine ear
The love of honour, that, with virtuous thirst,
Still drank it gladly? Has my moral pencil
So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood,
In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye;
And hast thou lov'd the one, and scorn'd the other,
Unbid, save by the voice that bade within?
Thou know'st thou hast; say then, shall one example,
Base as it is, and as thou feel'st it is,
Undo?--
Hapless youth!
Have I then all in vain pour'd on thine ear
The love of honour, that, with virtuous thirst,
Still drank it gladly? Has my moral pencil
So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood,
In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye;
And hast thou lov'd the one, and scorn'd the other,
Unbid, save by the voice that bade within?
Thou know'st thou hast; say then, shall one example,
Base as it is, and as thou feel'st it is,
Undo?--
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); found again "mind" and "eye"
Citation
Text from The Works of William Mason, 4 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811). <Link to Google Books>
See also Poems by William Mason, M.A., vol. III (York: Printed by W. Blanchard, 1797). <Link to ECCO> <Link to Google Books>
See also Poems by William Mason, M.A., vol. III (York: Printed by W. Blanchard, 1797). <Link to ECCO> <Link to Google Books>
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
05/11/2005
