"You know, Lavinia, once I lov'd you well; / Nor has your Crimes yet chang'd my Heart to Steel."
— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed and Sold by H. Hills [etc.]
Date
1708
Metaphor
"You know, Lavinia, once I lov'd you well; / Nor has your Crimes yet chang'd my Heart to Steel."
Metaphor in Context
Husband.
What Pow'r has faithless Beauty in her Tears?
How Guilt withdraws, when Penitence appears?
You know, Lavinia, once I lov'd you well;
Nor has your Crimes yet chang'd my Heart to Steel.
I cannot hear you so much Grief express,
But still must pity your Unhappiness.
I own, Lavinia, I'm a little mov'd
To ease that Heart I once so dearly lov'd.
Could I forget, methinks I could forgive;
But Crimes like yours, will still unbury'd live;
In the most patient Bosom knawing lie,
And, like the Worm of Conscience, never di
What Pow'r has faithless Beauty in her Tears?
How Guilt withdraws, when Penitence appears?
You know, Lavinia, once I lov'd you well;
Nor has your Crimes yet chang'd my Heart to Steel.
I cannot hear you so much Grief express,
But still must pity your Unhappiness.
I own, Lavinia, I'm a little mov'd
To ease that Heart I once so dearly lov'd.
Could I forget, methinks I could forgive;
But Crimes like yours, will still unbury'd live;
In the most patient Bosom knawing lie,
And, like the Worm of Conscience, never di
Provenance
Searching "steel" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/11/2005
