"I render back the Treasure of thy Heart: / When in some new fair Breast it finds a Room, And I shall lie neglected in my Tomb; / Remember, oh! remember, the fair She / Can never love thee, darling Youth! like me."
— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by H. Meere, for C. King, and A. Bettesworth
Date
1717
Metaphor
"I render back the Treasure of thy Heart: / When in some new fair Breast it finds a Room, And I shall lie neglected in my Tomb; / Remember, oh! remember, the fair She / Can never love thee, darling Youth! like me."
Metaphor in Context
Joy of my Soul, my faithful tender Youth,
Lord of my Vows, and Miracle of Truth,
The angry Gods resolving we must part,
I render back the Treasure of thy Heart:
When in some new fair Breast it finds a Room,
And I shall lie neglected in my Tomb;
Remember, oh! remember, the fair She
Can never love thee, darling Youth! like me.
Then with a Sigh, she sunk into my Breast,
While her fair Eyes her last Farewel exprest.
Lord of my Vows, and Miracle of Truth,
The angry Gods resolving we must part,
I render back the Treasure of thy Heart:
When in some new fair Breast it finds a Room,
And I shall lie neglected in my Tomb;
Remember, oh! remember, the fair She
Can never love thee, darling Youth! like me.
Then with a Sigh, she sunk into my Breast,
While her fair Eyes her last Farewel exprest.
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Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1717). [A version of Behn's Voyage to the Island of Love, anonymously revised.]
The Land of Love. A Poem. (London: Printed by H. Meere, for C. King in Westminster-Hall, and A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster Row, 1717). <Link to ESTC>
The Land of Love. A Poem. (London: Printed by H. Meere, for C. King in Westminster-Hall, and A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster Row, 1717). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
08/29/2005
