"Thy mind is like a crystal brook / Wherein clean creatures live at ease / In sun-bright waves or shady nook."
— Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1809)
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Century Company
Date
1893
Metaphor
"Thy mind is like a crystal brook / Wherein clean creatures live at ease / In sun-bright waves or shady nook."
Metaphor in Context
THY mind is like a crystal brook
Wherein clean creatures live at ease,
In sun-bright waves or shady nook.
Birds sing above it,
The warm-breathed cattle love it,
It doth sweet childhood please.
Accurst be he by whom it were undone,
Or thing or thought whose presence
The birds and beasts would loathly shun,
Would make its crystal waters foully run,
And drive sweet childhood from its pleasance.
Wherein clean creatures live at ease,
In sun-bright waves or shady nook.
Birds sing above it,
The warm-breathed cattle love it,
It doth sweet childhood please.
Accurst be he by whom it were undone,
Or thing or thought whose presence
The birds and beasts would loathly shun,
Would make its crystal waters foully run,
And drive sweet childhood from its pleasance.
Categories
Provenance
Contributed by Suzanne Morgen
Citation
Gilder, Richard Watson. The Great Remembrance and Other Poems, New York: Century Co., 1893.
Theme
Stream of Consciousness
Date of Entry
12/03/2009
Date of Review
06/16/2010
