"Hampton! 'tis thus thy scenes I view, / In Time and Mem'ry's mirror true."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Author

Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Work Title

A Soliloquy, Pencilled while on an Excursion to Hampton-Court, June 14, 1804. [from Harvest-Home: Consisting of Supplementary Gleanings, Original Dramas and Poems, Contributions of Literary Friends, and Select Re-publications, Including Sympathy, a Poem, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. From the Eighth edition]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Phillips
Date
1805
Metaphor
"Hampton! 'tis thus thy scenes I view, / In Time and Mem'ry's mirror true."
Metaphor in Context
Hampton! 'tis thus thy scenes I view,
In Time and Mem'ry's mirror true.
Thy walnut-shade deep thought supplies,
Thy very ruins school the Wise;
And in thy solemn walks is seen,
Tho' cut thro' one unvarying green,
Calm Comtemplation,--Virtue's Friend,--
The Soul at once to move and mend.
Categories
Optics::Mirror
Provenance
Searching "mirror" and "thought" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
11/26/2005

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