"'These dreams and fancies easily invade; / 'The mind and body feel the slow disease,"
— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Author
Work Title
Date
1819
Metaphor
"'These dreams and fancies easily invade; / 'The mind and body feel the slow disease,"
Metaphor in Context
"Nay, think! the night he died--the very night!"--
"'T is very true, and so perchance he might,
"But in thy mind--not, lady, in thy sight!
"Thou wert not well; forms delicately made
"These dreams and fancies easily invade;
"The mind and body feel the slow disease,
"And dreams are what the troubled fancy sees."--
"O! but how strange that all should be combined!"--
"True; but such combinations we may find;
"A dream's predicted number gain'd a prize,
"Yet dreams make no impression on the wise,
"Though some chance good, some lucky gain may rise."--
"'T is very true, and so perchance he might,
"But in thy mind--not, lady, in thy sight!
"Thou wert not well; forms delicately made
"These dreams and fancies easily invade;
"The mind and body feel the slow disease,
"And dreams are what the troubled fancy sees."--
"O! but how strange that all should be combined!"--
"True; but such combinations we may find;
"A dream's predicted number gain'd a prize,
"Yet dreams make no impression on the wise,
"Though some chance good, some lucky gain may rise."--
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "invad" in HDIS (Poetry)
Theme
Dualism
Date of Entry
05/04/2005
