"Oh! where shall I begin? what language find / To heal the raging anguish of your mind?"
— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Tonson
Date
1706
Metaphor
"Oh! where shall I begin? what language find / To heal the raging anguish of your mind?"
Metaphor in Context
Oh! where shall I begin? what language find
To heal the raging anguish of your mind?
Or if you deign a willing ear to lend,
Oh! where will my disastrous story end?
(p. 798)
To heal the raging anguish of your mind?
Or if you deign a willing ear to lend,
Oh! where will my disastrous story end?
(p. 798)
Categories
Provenance
HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Prior, Matthew, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior. Ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Date of Entry
02/25/2004
