"I've a hole in my heart, you may through it drive a cart"

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

Author

Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

Work Title

Cloddy's Courtship in Thick-Puddle-Dale. [from Collection of comic songs, Written, Compil'd, Etch'd, and Engrav'd, by J. Robertson; and sung by him at the theatres Nottingham, Derby, Stamford, Halifax, Chesterfield, and Redford]

Place of Publication
Peterborough
Publisher
Printed and sold by G. Robertson
Date
1805
Metaphor
"I've a hole in my heart, you may through it drive a cart"
Metaphor in Context
I'm rich enough, now, I've a bull and a cow,
And, my celler, when empty, is fill'd again;
I've a hole in my heart, you may through it drive a cart,
And my breasts' like an old empty kilderkin.
Categories
Uncategorized::Hole
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
08/16/2005

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