"My heart within me like a stone / Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears."
— Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Macmillan
Date
1862
Metaphor
"My heart within me like a stone / Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears."
Metaphor in Context
I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.
(ll. 1-8)
My heart within me like a stone
Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.
(ll. 1-8)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Rossetti, Christina. Goblin Market and other Poems. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. <Link to RPO>
Date of Entry
12/11/2009
