"In full perfection all thy works are wrought, / And thine the sceptre o'er the realms of thought."
— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753-1784)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Bell
Date
1773
Metaphor
"In full perfection all thy works are wrought, / And thine the sceptre o'er the realms of thought."
Metaphor in Context
Such is thy pow'r, nor are thine orders vain,
O thou the leader of the mental train:
In full perfection all thy works are wrought,
And thine the sceptre o'er the realms of thought.
Before thy throne the subject-passions bow,
Of subject-passions sov'reign ruler Thou,
At thy command joy rushes on the heart,
And through the glowing veins the spirits dart.
(ll. 33-40)
O thou the leader of the mental train:
In full perfection all thy works are wrought,
And thine the sceptre o'er the realms of thought.
Before thy throne the subject-passions bow,
Of subject-passions sov'reign ruler Thou,
At thy command joy rushes on the heart,
And through the glowing veins the spirits dart.
(ll. 33-40)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 5 entries in ESTC (1773, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1793).
See Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England. (London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). <Link to ESTC>
Reading Vincent Carretta's Unchained Voices (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2004): 62.
See Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England. (London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). <Link to ESTC>
Reading Vincent Carretta's Unchained Voices (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2004): 62.
Date of Entry
02/09/2011
