"For Damons's heart is true as steel, / And hard as flint is Phyllida's."
— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1754
Metaphor
"For Damons's heart is true as steel, / And hard as flint is Phyllida's."
Metaphor in Context
What whining Lovers feign or feel,
Your emblematic Box conveys;
For Damons's heart is true as steel,
And hard as flint is Phyllida's.
Your emblematic Box conveys;
For Damons's heart is true as steel,
And hard as flint is Phyllida's.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose. By George Jeffreys (London: Printed for the Author, 1754). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/10/2005
