"Permit me then, if I may dare presume / To think your Breast retains for me a Room"
— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Lewis
Date
1709
Metaphor
"Permit me then, if I may dare presume / To think your Breast retains for me a Room"
Metaphor in Context
Tho' all Afflictions that ill Fate can send
Against our Peace of Mind their Batt'ery bend,
We have a Refuge if we have a Freind:
Permit me then, if I may dare presume
To think your Breast retains for me a Room;
Who not deserve that Freindship I implore,
But will Endeavour to deserve it more:
Permit me yet to hope your Pitying Ear,
While by my Past I paint my Present Care.
Complaining oft brings the sad Soul Relief,
And is a kind of Sabbath to our Grief.
Against our Peace of Mind their Batt'ery bend,
We have a Refuge if we have a Freind:
Permit me then, if I may dare presume
To think your Breast retains for me a Room;
Who not deserve that Freindship I implore,
But will Endeavour to deserve it more:
Permit me yet to hope your Pitying Ear,
While by my Past I paint my Present Care.
Complaining oft brings the sad Soul Relief,
And is a kind of Sabbath to our Grief.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "room" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
The Works of Mr. Robert Gould: In Two Volumes. Consisting of those Poems and Satyrs Which were formerly Printed, and Corrected since by the Author; As also of the many more which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd from his Own Original Copies (London: W. Lewis, 1709). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/30/2005
