"Come then, my soul, be this thy guest, / And leave to knaves and fools the rest."
— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Dodsley
Date
1791
Metaphor
"Come then, my soul, be this thy guest, / And leave to knaves and fools the rest."
Metaphor in Context
Come then, my soul, be this thy guest,
And leave to knaves and fools the rest.
With this thou ever shalt be gay,
And night shall brighten into day.
And leave to knaves and fools the rest.
With this thou ever shalt be gay,
And night shall brighten into day.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "guest" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1791).
Text from Various Pieces in Verse and Prose. by the Late Nathaniel Cotton. Many of Which Were Never Before Published., 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1791). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Various Pieces in Verse and Prose. by the Late Nathaniel Cotton. Many of Which Were Never Before Published., 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1791). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/13/2006
