"Still Hope, with magic mirror tries / My sinking heart to cheer, / And points where smiling prospects rise / Of many a circling year"

— Cobb, James (1756-1818)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan ... for T. N. Longman and O. Rees [etc.]
Date
1800
Metaphor
"Still Hope, with magic mirror tries / My sinking heart to cheer, / And points where smiling prospects rise / Of many a circling year"
Metaphor in Context
ELIZA.
Yes, my beloved Sidney! I shall once more rejoin thee, and share thy fate--perhaps effect thy rescue.

[Song.--Eliza.]

With trembling steps and sinking heart
I urge my weary way;
At every whispering breeze I start,
All terror and dismay.
Still Hope, with magic mirror tries
My sinking heart to cheer,
And points where smiling prospects rise
Of many a circling year
.
Or when the sandy desart bright
Reflects the burning noon,
Or when the chilling damps of night
Arise and dim the moon.
Still Hope, &c.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "mirror" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
11/30/2005

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