"A Nobler, A Diviner Guest" may take possession of the Breast

— Norris, John (1657-1712)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Crosley, and Samuel Manship
Date
1692
Metaphor
"A Nobler, A Diviner Guest" may take possession of the Breast
Metaphor in Context
But now, thou soft Enchantress of the mind,
Farewel, a change, a mighty change I find;
The Empire of my Heart thou must resign,
  For I can be no longer thine.
  A Nobler, a Diviner Guest,
  Has took possession of my Breast
;
  He has, and must engross it all,
  And yet the room is still too small.
  In vain you tempt my Heart to rove,
A fairer Object now my Soul does move,
It must be all Devotion, what before was Love.
Categories
Provenance
Found again searching "guest" and "breast" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from A Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses & Letters, Occasionally Written. By John Norris, 2nd edition (London: Printed for J. Crosley, and Samuel Manship, 1692). <Link to first edition in EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/19/2004

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