"In you he liv'd, with yours his Soul was mixt, / As meeting Streams that flow promiscuous on."

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
T. Cox
Date
1719
Metaphor
"In you he liv'd, with yours his Soul was mixt, / As meeting Streams that flow promiscuous on."
Metaphor in Context
In your young Brother lately rais'd to Heav'n,
You had a Friend by double Bonds made yours:
In you he liv'd, with yours his Soul was mixt,
As meeting Streams that flow promiscuous on
.
The Road of Life you walked Hand in Hand;
One your Desires and your Aversions were:
Nought pleas'd the One, but what the other pleas'd.
Nor could Affliction seize you and not him:
Your Foes were his, and his were yours declar'd;
As if for one another you were born.
Now he by Death, relentless Death is seiz'd,
And from your Heart, where he was rooted well,
Torn with tormenting Violence away;
None but your self can the true Idea form
Of these smart Twinges which your Soul endures:
You only can your present Pangs declare,
And open all the dreadful Wound to view.
[Poem signed "R. Boyd"]
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Joseph Mitchell, Lugubres Cantus. Poems on Several Grave and Important Subjects, Chiefly Occasion'd by the Death of the Late Ingenious Youth John Mitchell. In Two Parts. With a General Preface by Appointment of an Athenian Societty in Edinburgh. (London: printed for T. Cox, 1719). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
01/08/2012

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