"Thoughts crowd on Thoughts, as Alps on Alps arise, / And Worlds of Wonder open to my Eyes."
— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Harmen Noorthouck [etc.]
Date
1732
Metaphor
"Thoughts crowd on Thoughts, as Alps on Alps arise, / And Worlds of Wonder open to my Eyes."
Metaphor in Context
I FEEL! I feel! my swelling Mind possest;
Not such high Raptures heav'd the Sybil's Breast,
When, trembling, near the sacred Shrine she trod,
Big with the Dictates of th' inspiring God.
Vast Images are pictur'd on my Brain,
And Words are wanting, Notions to explain;
Thoughts crowd on Thoughts, as Alps on Alps arise,
And Worlds of Wonder open to my Eyes.
Not such high Raptures heav'd the Sybil's Breast,
When, trembling, near the sacred Shrine she trod,
Big with the Dictates of th' inspiring God.
Vast Images are pictur'd on my Brain,
And Words are wanting, Notions to explain;
Thoughts crowd on Thoughts, as Alps on Alps arise,
And Worlds of Wonder open to my Eyes.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "thought" and "crowd" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Joseph Mitchell, Poems on Several Occasions, 2 vols. (London: Harmen Noorthouck, 1732). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
03/07/2006
