"In vain they strive your glorious Lamp to hide / In that dark Lanthorn to all noble minds, / Which, through the smallest cranny is descry'd, / Whose force united no resistance finds"
— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Tho. Basset ... Will. Hensman ... Tho. Fox [etc.]
Date
1689
Metaphor
"In vain they strive your glorious Lamp to hide / In that dark Lanthorn to all noble minds, / Which, through the smallest cranny is descry'd, / Whose force united no resistance finds"
Metaphor in Context
Such, Sir, is yours, that, uncontroul'd as Fate,
In the black bosom of o're-shading Night,
Can Sons of immortality create,
To dazle Envy with prevailing Light.
In vain they strive your glorious Lamp to hide
In that dark Lanthorn to all noble minds,
Which, through the smallest cranny is descry'd,
Whose force united no resistance finds.
In the black bosom of o're-shading Night,
Can Sons of immortality create,
To dazle Envy with prevailing Light.
In vain they strive your glorious Lamp to hide
In that dark Lanthorn to all noble minds,
Which, through the smallest cranny is descry'd,
Whose force united no resistance finds.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "lamp" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
01/18/2006
