"Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d, / Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws? / Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?"
— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Rivington
Date
1762
Metaphor
"Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d, / Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws? / Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?"
Metaphor in Context
Fables and Dreams my sportive Genius feigns:
Yet Dreams and Fables while I range with Art,
Caught by their magic Force, to serious Pains
Th’ inventive Head betrays the simple Heart:
Imagin’d Woes with real Grief I mourn,
Imagin’d Wrongs resent with real Scorn.
Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d,
Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws?
Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?
Springs Love or Anger from a better Cause?
Ah! not alone the Muse’s gay Deceit
Is empty Fable, but my Hopes and Fears:
This busy Scene is one perpetual Cheat,
One wild Delirium all my fruitless Years!
(p. 49)
Yet Dreams and Fables while I range with Art,
Caught by their magic Force, to serious Pains
Th’ inventive Head betrays the simple Heart:
Imagin’d Woes with real Grief I mourn,
Imagin’d Wrongs resent with real Scorn.
Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d,
Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws?
Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?
Springs Love or Anger from a better Cause?
Ah! not alone the Muse’s gay Deceit
Is empty Fable, but my Hopes and Fears:
This busy Scene is one perpetual Cheat,
One wild Delirium all my fruitless Years!
(p. 49)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1762, 1766, 1776, 1777, 1789)
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1762). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO> <Link 2nd edition in Google Books><See also 3rd edition of 1776 in Google Books>
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1762). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO> <Link 2nd edition in Google Books><See also 3rd edition of 1776 in Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/23/2011
