"My heart, a victim to thine eyes, / Should I at once deliver, / Say, would the angry fair one prize / The gift, who slights the giver?"
— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
October 13, 1759
Metaphor
"My heart, a victim to thine eyes, / Should I at once deliver, / Say, would the angry fair one prize / The gift, who slights the giver?"
Metaphor in Context
My heart, a victim to thine eyes,
Should I at once deliver,
Say, would the angry fair one prize
The gift, who slights the giver?
(ll. 5-8, p. 579)
Should I at once deliver,
Say, would the angry fair one prize
The gift, who slights the giver?
(ll. 5-8, p. 579)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
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
11/23/2003
