"Content is grown a Stranger to my Breast"
— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T. Browne [etc.]
Date
1733
Metaphor
"Content is grown a Stranger to my Breast"
Metaphor in Context
Alas! what Words can utter my Distress,
Or half the Sorrows of my Soul express?
Content is grown a Stranger to my Breast,
By anxious Care and heavy Ills opprest.
Sad mournful Visions of a dying Friend
Do ev'ry Night my troubled Dreams attend;
And all the Day in pensive Thought is spent,
For Her whose Loss I ever must lament.
Or half the Sorrows of my Soul express?
Content is grown a Stranger to my Breast,
By anxious Care and heavy Ills opprest.
Sad mournful Visions of a dying Friend
Do ev'ry Night my troubled Dreams attend;
And all the Day in pensive Thought is spent,
For Her whose Loss I ever must lament.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "stranger" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
03/06/2006
