"That the young sorcerer's fatal hand / Should round my soul his pleasing fetters tie."

— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Dodsley
Date
1760
Metaphor
"That the young sorcerer's fatal hand / Should round my soul his pleasing fetters tie."
Metaphor in Context
I ask not, god of dreams, thy care
    To banish Love's presentments fair:
    Nor rosy cheek nor radiant eye
    Can arm him with such influence bland
    That the young sorcerer's fatal hand
  Should round my soul his pleasing fetters tie
.
  Nor yet the courtier's hope, the giving smile
  (A lighter phantom, and a baser chain)
  Did e'er in slumber my proud lyre beguile
To lend the pomp of thrones her ill-according strain.
(pp. 44-5; cf. variant text in 1772 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
12 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1760, 1772, 1773, 1779, 1788, 1790, 1795, 1800).

Text from Odes on Several Subjects. 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1760). <Link to ESTC> [Metaphor doesn't appear in first edition]

Text found searching The Poems Of Mark Akenside (London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772). <Link to ESTC>[There titled "Ode II. To Sleep"]
Date of Entry
08/25/2004
Date of Review
06/26/2011

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.