{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/saph/sap/sap14.htm","path":"cla/saph/sap/sap14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/saph/sap/sap14.htm","text":"Sappho and Phaon, by Mary Robinson, [1796]\nO! Reason! vaunted Sovreign of the mind!\n Thou pompous vision with a sounding name!\n Can\u2019st thou, the soul\u2019s rebellious passions tame!\n Can\u2019st thou in spells the vagrant fancy bind?\n Ah, no! capricious as the wav\u2019ring wind,\n Are sighs of Love that dim thy boasted flame, \n While Folly\u2019s torch consumes the wreath of fame,\n And Pleasure\u2019s hands the sheaves of truth unbind.\n Press\u2019d by the storms of Fate, hope shrinks and dies;\n Frenzy darts forth in mightiest ills array\u2019d;\n Around thy throne destructive tumults rise,\n And hell-fraught jealousies, thy rights invade!\n Then, what art thou? O! Idol of the wise!\n A visionary theme!\u2014a gorgeous shade!","title":"Sappho and Phaon: XI. Rejects the Influence of Reason.","type":"page"}