"Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, / Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart / Made purple riot"
— Keats, John (1795-1821)
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Work Title
Date
1820
Metaphor
"Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, / Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart / Made purple riot"
Metaphor in Context
Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,
Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart
Made purple riot: then doth he propose
A stratagem, that makes the beldame start:
"A cruel man and impious thou art:
"Sweet lady, let her pray, and sleep, and dream
"Alone with her good angels, far apart
"From wicked men like thee. Go, go!--I deem
"Thou canst not surely be the same that thou didst seem.
(ll. 136-44, p. 233)
Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart
Made purple riot: then doth he propose
A stratagem, that makes the beldame start:
"A cruel man and impious thou art:
"Sweet lady, let her pray, and sleep, and dream
"Alone with her good angels, far apart
"From wicked men like thee. Go, go!--I deem
"Thou canst not surely be the same that thou didst seem.
(ll. 136-44, p. 233)
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Provenance
HDIS
Citation
Keats, John. Complete Poems. Ed. Jack Stillinger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Date of Entry
09/22/2003
