"In all my Enna's beauties blest, / Amidst profusion still I pine; / For though she gives me up her breast, / Its panting tenant is not mine."
— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed in the Public Ledger
Date
May 13, 1761
Metaphor
"In all my Enna's beauties blest, / Amidst profusion still I pine; / For though she gives me up her breast, / Its panting tenant is not mine."
Metaphor in Context
In all my Enna's beauties blest,
Amidst profusion still I pine;
For though she gives me up her breast,
Its panting tenant is not mine.
(ll. 1-4, p. 593)
Amidst profusion still I pine;
For though she gives me up her breast,
Its panting tenant is not mine.
(ll. 1-4, p. 593)
Categories
Provenance
Reading and HDIS (Poetry)
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
11/27/2003
Date of Review
06/10/2010
