"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Author

Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Work Title

To the Same, Fortune-telling with Cards [from The Wiccamical Chaplet, a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Leigh, Sotheby and Son ... by T. Burton [etc.]
Date
1804
Metaphor
"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"
Metaphor in Context
By those love-darting Eyes I find
How many hearts their empire own;
  I see the sweetness of thy mind
That keeps the hearts those Eyes have won:
Categories
Government::Empire Government::Empire
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "empire" in HDIS (Poetry); found again searching "heart" and "empire" (8/22/2004)
Date of Entry
08/11/2004

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.