"THOU, matur'd by glad Hesperian Suns, / Tobacco, Fountain pure of limpid Truth, / That looks the very Soul; whence pouring Thought / Swarms all the Mind; absorpt is yellow Care, / And at each Puff Imagination burns."
— Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
L. Gilliver
Date
1736
Metaphor
"THOU, matur'd by glad Hesperian Suns, / Tobacco, Fountain pure of limpid Truth, / That looks the very Soul; whence pouring Thought / Swarms all the Mind; absorpt is yellow Care, / And at each Puff Imagination burns."
Metaphor in Context
THOU, matur'd by glad Hesperian Suns,
Tobacco, Fountain pure of limpid Truth,
That looks the very Soul; whence pouring Thought
Swarms all the Mind; absorpt is yellow Care,
And at each Puff Imagination burns.
Flash on thy Bard, and with exalting Fires
Touch the mysterious Lip that chaunts thy Praise
In Strains to mortal Sons of Earth unknown.
(pp. 13-4)
Tobacco, Fountain pure of limpid Truth,
That looks the very Soul; whence pouring Thought
Swarms all the Mind; absorpt is yellow Care,
And at each Puff Imagination burns.
Flash on thy Bard, and with exalting Fires
Touch the mysterious Lip that chaunts thy Praise
In Strains to mortal Sons of Earth unknown.
(pp. 13-4)
Categories
Provenance
Reading at Lewis Walpole Library
Citation
Isaac Hawkins Brown, A Pipe of Tobacco: In Imitation of Six Several Authors (London: L. Gilliver, 1736).
See also Isaac Hawkins Browne, A Pipe of Tobacco, 3rd edition (1744). <Google Books>
See also Isaac Hawkins Browne, A Pipe of Tobacco, 3rd edition (1744). <Google Books>
Date of Entry
10/10/2012
