"So those high orthodoxies came to be / Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion, / And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea, / And drifted, holden by no wise dominion."
— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Place of Publication
Glasgow
Publisher
James Maclehose & Sons
Date
1891
Metaphor
"So those high orthodoxies came to be / Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion, / And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea, / And drifted, holden by no wise dominion."
Metaphor in Context
So those high orthodoxies came to be
Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion,
And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea,
And drifted, holden by no wise dominion.
(p. 36)
Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion,
And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea,
And drifted, holden by no wise dominion.
(p. 36)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS Poetry
Citation
HDIS takes from The Poetical Works (1902). A Heretic and Other Poems is available through Google Books: Link.
Date of Entry
12/23/2007
