"But rare Imagination, caught / Like seed-down from the breezes, sow / In the world's garden"
— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London and New York
Publisher
John Lane: The Bodley Head
Date
1900
Metaphor
"But rare Imagination, caught / Like seed-down from the breezes, sow / In the world's garden"
Metaphor in Context
Sow not emotion; 'tis a weed
That grows in hedge-rows; every fool
Fancies his own emotions breed
The right to teach, the right to rule.
Sow not religion; 'tis a flower
That robs the sunshine of its hue,
To deck its own peculiar bower
With regal red and saintly blue.
But rare Imagination, caught
Like seed-down from the breezes, sow
In the world's garden; there is nought
Except this balsam for her woe.
(pp. 100-1)
That grows in hedge-rows; every fool
Fancies his own emotions breed
The right to teach, the right to rule.
Sow not religion; 'tis a flower
That robs the sunshine of its hue,
To deck its own peculiar bower
With regal red and saintly blue.
But rare Imagination, caught
Like seed-down from the breezes, sow
In the world's garden; there is nought
Except this balsam for her woe.
(pp. 100-1)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Edition on Google Books: Link.
Date of Entry
12/23/2007
