"Nay, if, like hers, my heart were iron-bound, / My warmth would melt the fetters to the ground"
— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson
Date
1796
Metaphor
"Nay, if, like hers, my heart were iron-bound, / My warmth would melt the fetters to the ground"
Metaphor in Context
I am no Amazon; nor would I give
One silver groat by iron laws to live.
Nay, if, like hers, my heart were iron-bound,
My warmth would melt the fetters to the ground.
One silver groat by iron laws to live.
Nay, if, like hers, my heart were iron-bound,
My warmth would melt the fetters to the ground.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "iron" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC
Ann Yearsley, The Rural Lyre: a Volume of Poems Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bristol, Lord Bishop of Derry (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Reading Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Ann Yearsley, The Rural Lyre: a Volume of Poems Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bristol, Lord Bishop of Derry (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Reading Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Date of Entry
07/29/2003
Date of Review
06/26/2011
