"You'd not believe by what strange roads / Thought travels, when your beauty goads / A man to-night to think of toads."
— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
F. S. Ellis
Date
April 26 1870
Metaphor
"You'd not believe by what strange roads / Thought travels, when your beauty goads / A man to-night to think of toads."
Metaphor in Context
Come, come, what use in thoughts like this?
Poor little Jenny, good to kiss,—
You'd not believe by what strange roads
Thought travels, when your beauty goads
A man to-night to think of toads!
Jenny, wake up. . . . Why, there's the dawn!
(p. 122, ll. 298-303)
Poor little Jenny, good to kiss,—
You'd not believe by what strange roads
Thought travels, when your beauty goads
A man to-night to think of toads!
Jenny, wake up. . . . Why, there's the dawn!
(p. 122, ll. 298-303)
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Reading
Citation
Rosetti, D.G. "Jenny." Poems. London: F.S. Ellis, 1870. <Link to the Rossetti Archive>
Date of Entry
12/10/2009
