"O Peace of mind, thou lovely guest, / Thou softest soother of the breast, / Dispense thy balmy store."
— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Work Title
Date
w. 1764, published 1820
Metaphor
"O Peace of mind, thou lovely guest, / Thou softest soother of the breast, / Dispense thy balmy store."
Metaphor in Context
CHORUS OF ISRAELITES
O Peace of mind, thou lovely guest,
Thou softest soother of the breast,
Dispense thy balmy store.
Wing all our thoughts to reach the skies,
Till earth, diminished to our eyes,
Shall vanish as we soar.
(ll.99-104, pp. 612-3)
O Peace of mind, thou lovely guest,
Thou softest soother of the breast,
Dispense thy balmy store.
Wing all our thoughts to reach the skies,
Till earth, diminished to our eyes,
Shall vanish as we soar.
(ll.99-104, pp. 612-3)
Categories
Provenance
Found again searching "mind" and "guest" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Reading Roger Lonsdale's The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith (London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972).
Date of Entry
11/22/2003
Date of Review
01/06/2012
