"Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art / Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast:"
— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Place of Publication
Kingston, Jamaica
Publisher
From the press of Joseph Thompson and Co.
Date
1773
Metaphor
"Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art / Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast:"
Metaphor in Context
Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art
Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast:
O say what happier rival wins thy heart,
Is Selim there no more a welcome guest?
(cf. p. 27 in 1773 ed.)
Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast:
O say what happier rival wins thy heart,
Is Selim there no more a welcome guest?
(cf. p. 27 in 1773 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1773).
See Persian Love Elegies. To which is Added The Nymph of Tauris. (Kingston: From the press of Joseph Thompson and Co., 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
See Persian Love Elegies. To which is Added The Nymph of Tauris. (Kingston: From the press of Joseph Thompson and Co., 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
Date of Entry
03/13/2006
