"And now the fair Ideas, which possest / Your Mind, by loose and vicious Thoughts opprest, / How will you wing your Way to Realms above, / And feast your Soul with Extasies of Love"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Author

Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Work Title

Youth in Danger. To Menalcas. [from A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Wilkins for Jonas Browne ... and J. Walthoe [etc.]
Date
1718
Metaphor
"And now the fair Ideas, which possest / Your Mind, by loose and vicious Thoughts opprest, / How will you wing your Way to Realms above, / And feast your Soul with Extasies of Love"
Metaphor in Context
While you your Hours amid'st Admirers spend,
And scarce to all their Favours can attend,
Will not your Mind uncultivated lie,
Religion languish, and Devotion die?
Without a Will or Leisure to reflect
You'll Heav'n forget, and sacred Rules neglect.
A sensual Tincture will pervert your Taste
Of Things Divine, with Rapture once embrac't.
And now the fair Ideas, which possest
Your Mind, by loose and vicious Thoughts opprest,
How will you wing your Way to Realms above,
And feast your Soul with Extasies of Love?
Categories
Government::Rule and Subjection::Oppression Eating and Drinking::Feast
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>
Date of Entry
05/20/2010

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