"Boundless desire, aw'd hope, and doubtful joy, / Stormy, by turns, the veering heart employ; / Sick'ning, in fancy's sun-shine, now, we faint, / And licence wounds us deeper, than restraint."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1726, 1753
Metaphor
"Boundless desire, aw'd hope, and doubtful joy, / Stormy, by turns, the veering heart employ; / Sick'ning, in fancy's sun-shine, now, we faint, / And licence wounds us deeper, than restraint."
Metaphor in Context
Boundless desire, aw'd hope, and doubtful joy,
Stormy, by turns, the veering heart employ;
Sick'ning, in fancy's sun-shine, now, we faint,
And licence wounds us deeper, than restraint:
Fix'd, in her op'ning door, surpriz'd, we stay,
Dumb, and depriv'd of all, we meant to say:
Our eyes flash meanings, but our rooted feet
Pause, 'till due rev'rence saints the hallow'd heat:
Soft tremblings seize us, and a gentle dread,
Speechless our thought, and all our courage fled.
(p. 205; cf. p. 199 in 1726 miscellany)
Stormy, by turns, the veering heart employ;
Sick'ning, in fancy's sun-shine, now, we faint,
And licence wounds us deeper, than restraint:
Fix'd, in her op'ning door, surpriz'd, we stay,
Dumb, and depriv'd of all, we meant to say:
Our eyes flash meanings, but our rooted feet
Pause, 'till due rev'rence saints the hallow'd heat:
Soft tremblings seize us, and a gentle dread,
Speechless our thought, and all our courage fled.
(p. 205; cf. p. 199 in 1726 miscellany)
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Citation
At least 4 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1726, 1753, 1754).
See Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. Publish’d by Richard Savage, Son of the Late Earl Rivers. (London: Printed for Samuel Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall, 1726). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; in Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, and of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With an Essay on the Art of Acting. (London: Printed for the benefit of the family, 1753). <Link to ESTC>
See Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. Publish’d by Richard Savage, Son of the Late Earl Rivers. (London: Printed for Samuel Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall, 1726). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; in Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, and of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With an Essay on the Art of Acting. (London: Printed for the benefit of the family, 1753). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
06/11/2014
