"Would she but cast such quickning Beams on me, / I should her living Image be; / Look when she pleas'd, her Picture she would find / Deeply imprinted in my Mind."

— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by J. Heptinstall, for Henry Dickenson
Date
1693
Metaphor
"Would she but cast such quickning Beams on me, / I should her living Image be; / Look when she pleas'd, her Picture she would find / Deeply imprinted in my Mind."
Metaphor in Context
II.
By thine own Light thou scarce her Form canst view;
Thy very Light and Essence too
Proceeds from her, as Phoebus 's borrow'd Ray,
Reflects the Image of the Day.

III.
Would she but cast such quickning Beams on me,
I should her living Image be;
Look when she pleas'd, her Picture she would find
Deeply imprinted in my Mind.

(pp. 133-4, ll. 5-12)
Provenance
Searching "mind" in C-H Lion
Citation
Only one entry in the ESTC.

Poems upon Several Occasions by Benj. Hawkshaw (London: Printed by J. Heptinstall, for Henry Dickenson, 1693). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
07/24/2013

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