"Not greater wonder seiz'd th' abode / Of gloomy Dis, infernal god, / With pity when th' Orphean lyre / Did every iron heart inspire, / Sooth'd tortur'd ghosts with heavenly strains, / And respited eternal pains."
— Dalton, John (b. 1709, d. 1763)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. Pearch
Date
1770
Metaphor
"Not greater wonder seiz'd th' abode / Of gloomy Dis, infernal god, / With pity when th' Orphean lyre / Did every iron heart inspire, / Sooth'd tortur'd ghosts with heavenly strains, / And respited eternal pains."
Metaphor in Context
Agape the sooty collier stands,
His axe suspended in his hands,
His Aethiopian teeth the while
"Grin horribly a ghastly smile,"
To see two goddesses so fair
Descend to him from fields of air.
Not greater wonder seiz'd th' abode
Of gloomy Dis, infernal god,
With pity when th' Orphean lyre
Did every iron heart inspire,
Sooth'd tortur'd ghosts with heavenly strains,
And respited eternal pains.
(p. 27 in Pearch)
His axe suspended in his hands,
His Aethiopian teeth the while
"Grin horribly a ghastly smile,"
To see two goddesses so fair
Descend to him from fields of air.
Not greater wonder seiz'd th' abode
Of gloomy Dis, infernal god,
With pity when th' Orphean lyre
Did every iron heart inspire,
Sooth'd tortur'd ghosts with heavenly strains,
And respited eternal pains.
(p. 27 in Pearch)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in ECCO-TCP
Citation
At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1755, 1768, 1770, 1775, 1789). Collected in Bell's Fugitive Poetry. Extracted in Thomas West's A Guide to the Lakes (1784).
See A Descriptive Poem, Addressed to Two Ladies, at Their Return from Viewing the Mines Near Whitehaven. To Which Are Added, Some Thoughts on Building and Planting, to Sir James Lowther, of Lowther-Hall, Bart. By John Dalton, D.D. (London: Printed for J. and J. Rivington in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1755). <Link to ESTC>
Text from George Pearch's A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. by Several Hands (London: Printed for G. Pearch, 1770). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See A Descriptive Poem, Addressed to Two Ladies, at Their Return from Viewing the Mines Near Whitehaven. To Which Are Added, Some Thoughts on Building and Planting, to Sir James Lowther, of Lowther-Hall, Bart. By John Dalton, D.D. (London: Printed for J. and J. Rivington in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1755). <Link to ESTC>
Text from George Pearch's A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. by Several Hands (London: Printed for G. Pearch, 1770). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
11/26/2013
