"Yet in my hollow looks and withered mien / The likeness of a shape for which was braided / The brightest woof of genius, still was seen."
— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. and J. Ollier
Date
1817, 1818
Metaphor
"Yet in my hollow looks and withered mien / The likeness of a shape for which was braided / The brightest woof of genius, still was seen."
Metaphor in Context
And though their lustre now was spent and faded,
Yet in my hollow looks and withered mien
The likeness of a shape for which was braided
The brightest woof of genius, still was seen--
One who, methought, had gone from the world's scene,
And left it vacant--'twas her lover's face--
It might resemble her--it once had been
The mirror of her thoughts, and still the grace
Which her mind's shadow cast, left there a lingering trace.
Yet in my hollow looks and withered mien
The likeness of a shape for which was braided
The brightest woof of genius, still was seen--
One who, methought, had gone from the world's scene,
And left it vacant--'twas her lover's face--
It might resemble her--it once had been
The mirror of her thoughts, and still the grace
Which her mind's shadow cast, left there a lingering trace.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
The Revolt of Islam. A Poem in Twelve Cantos. (London: C. and J. Ollier, 1817) <Link to 1829 edition in Google Books>.
Originally published as Laon and Cythna. Text from the University of Adelaide's "eBooks@Adelaide." http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/
Originally published as Laon and Cythna. Text from the University of Adelaide's "eBooks@Adelaide." http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/
Date of Entry
10/21/2005
Date of Review
12/03/2008
