"Call to your Aid the Arts of Earth and Hell, / Th' upbraiding Guest within you'll ne'er expel."
— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Wilkins for Jonas Browne ... and J. Walthoe [etc.]
Date
1718
Metaphor
"Call to your Aid the Arts of Earth and Hell, / Th' upbraiding Guest within you'll ne'er expel."
Metaphor in Context
While Sense of Guilt not wholly is supprest,
Misgiving Thoughts must interrupt your Rest;
The hardy Atheist, and the Libertine,
Who, Slaves to Vice, ne'er tasted Joys Divine,
May pass in Peace their Guilty Hours, which you
Who once did Heav'n revere, can never do;
Call to your Aid the Arts of Earth and Hell,
Th' upbraiding Guest within you'll ne'er expel.
Misgiving Thoughts must interrupt your Rest;
The hardy Atheist, and the Libertine,
Who, Slaves to Vice, ne'er tasted Joys Divine,
May pass in Peace their Guilty Hours, which you
Who once did Heav'n revere, can never do;
Call to your Aid the Arts of Earth and Hell,
Th' upbraiding Guest within you'll ne'er expel.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC and ECCO (1718).
Richard Blackmore, A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. Fellow of the Royal-College of Physicians. (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for Jonas Browne and J. Walthoe, 1718). <Link to ECCO>
Richard Blackmore, A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. Fellow of the Royal-College of Physicians. (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for Jonas Browne and J. Walthoe, 1718). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
05/20/2010
