"When the sable Sweep of Night, / Drowns Distinction from my Sight, / I no inward Darkness find; / You are Day-light, to my Mind."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
Monday, March 29, 1725.
Metaphor
"When the sable Sweep of Night, / Drowns Distinction from my Sight, / I no inward Darkness find; / You are Day-light, to my Mind."
Metaphor in Context
When the sable Sweep of Night,
Drowns Distinction from my Sight,
I no inward Darkness find;
You are Day-light, to my Mind.
All my Dreams, are Lives of Joy,
Which, in waking, I destroy:
You, a Slave to Custom made,
Are of empty Forms afraid;
But your happier Image, free
From fantastick Tyranny,
Independent, kind, and wise,
Shuns Restraint, and knows no Ties. Oh! the dear, delightful, Pain!
Who, that sleeps, thus, would wake again?
(II, p. 421)
Drowns Distinction from my Sight,
I no inward Darkness find;
You are Day-light, to my Mind.
All my Dreams, are Lives of Joy,
Which, in waking, I destroy:
You, a Slave to Custom made,
Are of empty Forms afraid;
But your happier Image, free
From fantastick Tyranny,
Independent, kind, and wise,
Shuns Restraint, and knows no Ties. Oh! the dear, delightful, Pain!
Who, that sleeps, thus, would wake again?
(II, p. 421)
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Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
Text from The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/17/2013
