"Fear thee, O Death!--Or hug the chains that bind / To joyless, cheerless life, her sick, reluctant mind?"
— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies
Date
1797
Metaphor
"Fear thee, O Death!--Or hug the chains that bind / To joyless, cheerless life, her sick, reluctant mind?"
Metaphor in Context
Can then the wounded wretch who must deplore
What most she loved, to thy cold arms consign'd,
Who hears the voice that sooth'd her soul no more,
Fear thee, O Death!--Or hug the chains that bind
To joyless, cheerless life, her sick, reluctant mind?
(ll. 16-20)
What most she loved, to thy cold arms consign'd,
Who hears the voice that sooth'd her soul no more,
Fear thee, O Death!--Or hug the chains that bind
To joyless, cheerless life, her sick, reluctant mind?
(ll. 16-20)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Reading and comparing The Poems of Charlotte Smith, ed. Stuart Curran (New York and Oxford: OUP, 1993).
Elegiac Sonnets, And Other Poems, By Charlotte Smith, 8th edition, 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1797). <Link to ECCO><Link to volume I in Google Books><volume II>
See also Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems, by Charlotte Smith, 9th edition, 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1800). <Link to volume I in Google Books> <Link to volume II in ECCO> — Note, Curran uses this edition as his base text for Sonnets 1 through 59.
Elegiac Sonnets, And Other Poems, By Charlotte Smith, 8th edition, 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1797). <Link to ECCO><Link to volume I in Google Books><volume II>
See also Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems, by Charlotte Smith, 9th edition, 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1800). <Link to volume I in Google Books> <Link to volume II in ECCO> — Note, Curran uses this edition as his base text for Sonnets 1 through 59.
Date of Entry
06/13/2013
