"Still is it the false coinage of my fears?"

— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)


Date
1805
Metaphor
"Still is it the false coinage of my fears?"
Metaphor in Context
VAL.
Still is it the false coinage of my fears?
Ah! hearing, sight, and every sense is now
False and deceitful grown. I'll sit me down,
And think no more, but let the black hour pass
In still and fixed stupor o'er my head.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "Coinage" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
02/26/2009

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.