"Divine Sensibility! widely impart / Thy fibres of feeling, and live in each heart!"
— Anonymous
Author
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by B. Dornin
Date
1790
Metaphor
"Divine Sensibility! widely impart / Thy fibres of feeling, and live in each heart!"
Metaphor in Context
Behold lovely Westmorland leads the gay throng,
Herself by the graces led calmly along;
With a bosom of innocence easily hit
By the nice ball of humour or arrow of wit;
With a mind which when tragical sorrows appear
Rushes up to her eye, and descends in a tear.
Divine Sensibility! widely impart
Thy fibres of feeling, and live in each heart!
Where Misery stalks in her garment of woe,
Oh! bid the rich flood of humanity flow;
When Sorrow more secret retires to her shed,
Oh! hasten with comforts to pillow her head;--
It is thus we should act thro' life's perilous scene--
Thus Westmorland proves she is really a queen.
Herself by the graces led calmly along;
With a bosom of innocence easily hit
By the nice ball of humour or arrow of wit;
With a mind which when tragical sorrows appear
Rushes up to her eye, and descends in a tear.
Divine Sensibility! widely impart
Thy fibres of feeling, and live in each heart!
Where Misery stalks in her garment of woe,
Oh! bid the rich flood of humanity flow;
When Sorrow more secret retires to her shed,
Oh! hasten with comforts to pillow her head;--
It is thus we should act thro' life's perilous scene--
Thus Westmorland proves she is really a queen.
Categories
Provenance
Reading at the Folger
Citation
Anonymous, The Mirror; a Panegyrical, Satirical, and Thespian Epistle in Rhyme, from the Theatre in Crow-Street, to the Theatre in Smock-Alley. (Dublin: Printed by B. Dornin, 1790).
Date of Entry
05/16/2013
