"Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd / All fine impressions of Celestial mind."
— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Author
Date
1713-1714
Metaphor
"Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd / All fine impressions of Celestial mind."
Metaphor in Context
The Man whose Judgement Joynd with force of Witt
The lives of Popes & lives of Heroes writt
Who sung true Pleasure showd ye Golden mean
And taught Wild Youth to shun ye Lovers pain
Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd
All fine impressions of Celestial mind
That Man that Platina so lately fled
From earth to silent Darkness is not dead
Evn Death is here restraind ye stroke he gives
has killd the man ye Writer ever lives.
The lives of Popes & lives of Heroes writt
Who sung true Pleasure showd ye Golden mean
And taught Wild Youth to shun ye Lovers pain
Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd
All fine impressions of Celestial mind
That Man that Platina so lately fled
From earth to silent Darkness is not dead
Evn Death is here restraind ye stroke he gives
has killd the man ye Writer ever lives.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "impression" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Parnell, Thomas. Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell. Eds. Claude Julien Rawson and F. P. Lock. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
05/16/2005
Date of Review
12/03/2008
