"We'll make his temple in our breast, / And offer up a tear."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)


Date
1820
Metaphor
"We'll make his temple in our breast, / And offer up a tear."
Metaphor in Context
CHORUS OF ISRAELITES
And though no temple richly dressed
Nor sacrifice is here,
We'll make his temple in our breast,
And offer up a tear.
(
ll. 11-4, p. 608)
Provenance
HDIS
Citation
Ed. Roger Lonsdale. The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith (London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972).
Date of Entry
11/27/2003

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