"And it did store the mind with furniture -- / In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber, / But morticed well, and fashioned to endure, / Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber"
— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Place of Publication
Glasgow
Publisher
James Maclehose & Sons
Date
1891
Metaphor
"And it did store the mind with furniture -- / In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber, / But morticed well, and fashioned to endure, / Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber"
Metaphor in Context
Yet in his stern creed lay a tender heart,
The husk o'erlaid a wealth of human kindness
And love, that fain their wisdom would impart
To purge the young soul of its earthly blindness.
And it did store the mind with furniture --
In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber,
But morticed well, and fashioned to endure,
Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber .
(p. 37)
The husk o'erlaid a wealth of human kindness
And love, that fain their wisdom would impart
To purge the young soul of its earthly blindness.
And it did store the mind with furniture --
In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber,
But morticed well, and fashioned to endure,
Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber .
(p. 37)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "furniture" 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
Date of Review
12/23/2007
