"My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest [Love], / Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast"
— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Henry Lintot
Date
1727, 1739
Metaphor
"My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest [Love], / Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast"
Metaphor in Context
While thus I spoke, Love's gentle Pow'r
Descended from th'Æthereal Bow'r;
A Quiver at his Shoulder hung,
A Shaft he grasp'd, and Bow unstrung.
All Nature own'd the genial God,
And the Spring flourish'd where he trod:
My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest,
Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast;
When with a Smile that kindles Joy
Ev'n in the Gods, began the Boy:
(see p. 203 in 1727 ed.)
Descended from th'Æthereal Bow'r;
A Quiver at his Shoulder hung,
A Shaft he grasp'd, and Bow unstrung.
All Nature own'd the genial God,
And the Spring flourish'd where he trod:
My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest,
Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast;
When with a Smile that kindles Joy
Ev'n in the Gods, began the Boy:
(see p. 203 in 1727 ed.)
Provenance
Searching "stranger" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1727, 1739, 1750).
Text from Poems on Several Occasions. By William Broome, 2nd ed., (London: Printed for Henry Lintot, 1739). Metaphors confirmed in 1727 ed. <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems on Several Occasions. By William Broome, 2nd ed., (London: Printed for Henry Lintot, 1739). Metaphors confirmed in 1727 ed. <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
02/22/2006
