Jealousy "inly gnaws the secret heart"

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Dodsley
Date
1747
Metaphor
Jealousy "inly gnaws the secret heart"
Metaphor in Context
These shall the fury Passions tear,
The vultures of the mind,
Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear,
And Shame that skulks behind;
Or pining Love shall waste their youth,
Or Jealousy with rankling tooth,
That inly gnaws the secret heart,

And Envy wan, and faded Care,
Grim-visaged comfortless Despair,
And Sorrow's piercing dart.
(ll. 61-70)
Categories
Provenance
HDIS
Citation
Ed. Roger Lonsdale. The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith. London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972
Date of Entry
11/10/2003

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.