"Silently we went round and round, / And through each hollow mind / The Memory of dreadful things / Rushed like a dreadful wind, / And Horror stalked before each man, / And Terror crept behind."
— Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900)
Work Title
Date
1898
Metaphor
"Silently we went round and round, / And through each hollow mind / The Memory of dreadful things / Rushed like a dreadful wind, / And Horror stalked before each man, / And Terror crept behind."
Metaphor in Context
Silently we went round and round,
And through each hollow mind
The Memory of dreadful things
Rushed like a dreadful wind,
And Horror stalked before each man,
And Terror crept behind.
(ll. 43-8)
And through each hollow mind
The Memory of dreadful things
Rushed like a dreadful wind,
And Horror stalked before each man,
And Terror crept behind.
(ll. 43-8)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Wilde, Oscar. Poems. New York: Brentano's, 1910. pp. 255-85. <Link to RPO>
Date of Entry
12/17/2009
