"And, Morpheus, thus may thy mild Lethéan powers, / For ever hovering round my midnight hours, / Thro' Fancy's mirror wrap me in idéal joy."
— Hamilton, William Gerard (1729-1796)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1750, 1770
Metaphor
"And, Morpheus, thus may thy mild Lethéan powers, / For ever hovering round my midnight hours, / Thro' Fancy's mirror wrap me in idéal joy."
Metaphor in Context
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Thus may thy languid charms dispense
Their blessings o'er my ravish'd sense
By thee to Attic worlds convey'd.
Thus if at Juno's fond request
Thou e'er on Ida's top opprest
Th' Almighty Thunderer with thy dewy shade,
To soothe one mortal thy fond care empley!
And, Morpheus, thus may thy mild Lethéan powers,
For ever hovering round my midnight hours,
Thro' Fancy's mirror wrap me in idéal joy.
(p. 119 in Pearch; cf. p. 8 in Hamilton's Four Odes)
Thus may thy languid charms dispense
Their blessings o'er my ravish'd sense
By thee to Attic worlds convey'd.
Thus if at Juno's fond request
Thou e'er on Ida's top opprest
Th' Almighty Thunderer with thy dewy shade,
To soothe one mortal thy fond care empley!
And, Morpheus, thus may thy mild Lethéan powers,
For ever hovering round my midnight hours,
Thro' Fancy's mirror wrap me in idéal joy.
(p. 119 in Pearch; cf. p. 8 in Hamilton's Four Odes)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "fancy" and "mirror" in ECCO-TCP; found again in ECCO.
Citation
At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1770, 1775, 1783, 1784).
See Four Odes. I. On Sleep. II. On Beauty. III. On Taste. IV. To the Right Hon. the Lady **** on the Death of her Son. (London: Printed for R. Manby and H. S. Cox on Ludgate-Hill, 1750). <Link to ESTC>
Text from A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. By Several Hands (London: Printed for G. Pearch, 1770). <Link to ECC-TCP>
See Four Odes. I. On Sleep. II. On Beauty. III. On Taste. IV. To the Right Hon. the Lady **** on the Death of her Son. (London: Printed for R. Manby and H. S. Cox on Ludgate-Hill, 1750). <Link to ESTC>
Text from A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. By Several Hands (London: Printed for G. Pearch, 1770). <Link to ECC-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/23/2013
