"'Grief, like a canker-worm at heart, / 'Had ravag'd from his inmost cell"
— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies, G. Robinson, and T. Cadell
Date
1773
Metaphor
"'Grief, like a canker-worm at heart, / 'Had ravag'd from his inmost cell"
Metaphor in Context
"Grief, like a canker-worm at heart,
"Had ravag'd from his inmost cell;
"Despair had pierc'd her with his dart,
"And Hope had sigh'd a last farewell.
(ll. 61-4)
"Had ravag'd from his inmost cell;
"Despair had pierc'd her with his dart,
"And Hope had sigh'd a last farewell.
(ll. 61-4)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "cell" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1770, 1773).
Text from Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for T. Davies, G. Robinson, and T. Cadell, 1773).
Text from Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for T. Davies, G. Robinson, and T. Cadell, 1773).
Date of Entry
08/16/2005
