"Brehm his own Mind survey'd, / As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare / With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze"
— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Work Title
Date
1785, 1881
Metaphor
"Brehm his own Mind survey'd, / As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare / With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze"
Metaphor in Context
Wrapt in eternal solitary shade, Th' impenetrable gloom of light intense, Impervious, inaccessible, immense, Ere spirits were infus'd or forms display'd, Brehm his own Mind survey'd, As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze: Swift, at his look, a shape supremely fair Leap'd into being with a boundless blaze, That fifty suns might daze. Primeval Maya was the Goddess nam'd, Who to her sire, with Love divine inflam'd, A casket gave with rich Ideas fill'd, From which this gorgeous Universe he fram'd; For, when th' Almighty will'd Unnumber'd worlds to build, From Unity diversified he sprang, While gay Creation laugh'd, and procreant Nature rang.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1785).
Text from The Hindu wife and the hymns: By William Jones, 2nd ed. (Calcutta: Printed by J. Ghose at the Ghose Press, 1881).
See A Hymn to Náráyena (Calcutta, 1785). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Hindu wife and the hymns: By William Jones, 2nd ed. (Calcutta: Printed by J. Ghose at the Ghose Press, 1881).
See A Hymn to Náráyena (Calcutta, 1785). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
04/17/2006
