"Passion's wild Influence ebb'd, and flow'd, my Mind; / As Seas drive diff'rent, with the changing Wind."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
Friday, July 10, 1724.
Metaphor
"Passion's wild Influence ebb'd, and flow'd, my Mind; / As Seas drive diff'rent, with the changing Wind."
Metaphor in Context
Dark, as the Midnight World, your Sunshine gone,
Guideless, in sullen Gloom, I wander'd on.
Passion's wild Influence ebb'd, and flow'd, my Mind;
As Seas drive diff'rent, with the changing Wind.
But, to what Point soe'er my Will was bound,
In vain I turn'd th'unresting Compass round:
Doubtful, a while, the wav'ring Needle hung;
Then, trembling, backward to your Image sprung.
(p. 267)
Guideless, in sullen Gloom, I wander'd on.
Passion's wild Influence ebb'd, and flow'd, my Mind;
As Seas drive diff'rent, with the changing Wind.
But, to what Point soe'er my Will was bound,
In vain I turn'd th'unresting Compass round:
Doubtful, a while, the wav'ring Needle hung;
Then, trembling, backward to your Image sprung.
(p. 267)
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Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
Text from The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/17/2013
