"I curse thee! let a sufferer's curse / Clasp thee, his torturer, like remorse; / Till thine Infinity shall be / A robe of envenomed agony; / And thine Omnipotence a crown of pain, / To cling like burning gold round thy dissolving brain."

— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
C. and J. Ollier
Date
1820
Metaphor
"I curse thee! let a sufferer's curse / Clasp thee, his torturer, like remorse; / Till thine Infinity shall be / A robe of envenomed agony; / And thine Omnipotence a crown of pain, / To cling like burning gold round thy dissolving brain."
Metaphor in Context
PHANTASM
[...]
But thou, who art the God and Lord: O, thou,
      Who fillest with thy soul this world of woe,
   To whom all things of Earth and Heaven do bow
      In fear and worship: all-prevailing foe!
   I curse thee! let a sufferer's curse
   Clasp thee, his torturer, like remorse;
   Till thine Infinity shall be
   A robe of envenomed agony;
And thine Omnipotence a crown of pain,
To cling like burning gold round thy dissolving brain
.
(I, ll. 282-291)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (London: C. and J. Ollier, 1820). <Link to Google Books> <Reading Text Prepared by Jack Lynch>
Date of Entry
10/25/2011

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