Rash, angry words may be "spoken out of season / When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason"
— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Malta
Date
1842
Metaphor
Rash, angry words may be "spoken out of season / When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason"
Metaphor in Context
Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season,
When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason,
Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust,
And for an idle, transitory gust
Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay
With long repentance at a later day.
When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason,
Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust,
And for an idle, transitory gust
Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay
With long repentance at a later day.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry); again "passion"
Citation
Theognis, and John Hookham Frere. Theognis Restitutus. The Personal History of the Poet Theognis. Malta: 1842; Frere, John Hookham, Aristophanes, Theognis, Bartle Frere, and William Edward Frere. The Works: In Verse and Prose. Vol. II. London: Pickering, 1872.
Date of Entry
07/19/2004
