"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined; / And either Muse is all thine own!"
— Crowe, William (1745-1829)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Murray
Date
w. 1775, 1827
Metaphor
"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined; / And either Muse is all thine own!"
Metaphor in Context
Come from thy wildly-winding stream,
First-born of Genius, Shakspeare , come!
The listening World attends thy theme,
And bids each elder Bard be dumb:
For thou, within the human Mind
Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne,
Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined;
And either Muse is all thine own!
(pp. 85-6, ll. 13-20)
First-born of Genius, Shakspeare , come!
The listening World attends thy theme,
And bids each elder Bard be dumb:
For thou, within the human Mind
Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne,
Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined;
And either Muse is all thine own!
(pp. 85-6, ll. 13-20)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
A Prize Poem at Bath-Easton. I find it reprinted in The Wiccamical chaplet (1804).
Text from Lewesdon Hill, with other poems. By the Rev. William Crowe. A Corrected and Much Enlarged Edition, with Notes (London: John Murray, 1827). <Link to Google Books>
Text from Lewesdon Hill, with other poems. By the Rev. William Crowe. A Corrected and Much Enlarged Edition, with Notes (London: John Murray, 1827). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
10/02/2013
