"If I cant have the pleasure to conquer yr heart / I shall have some at least in complaining."

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)


Work Title
Date
w. 1713-1718?, 1989
Metaphor
"If I cant have the pleasure to conquer yr heart / I shall have some at least in complaining."
Metaphor in Context
How nicely fair Phillis you manage yr slave
  You neither reproach nor approve him
Just keep him in play wth ye hopes wch you leave
  Not give him enough that you'le love him
Tis tyrrany ruling in love wth such art
; Own rather the cruellest meaning
If I cant have the pleasure to conquer yr heart
  I shall have some at least in complaining
.
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Parnell, Thomas. Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell. Eds. Claude Julien Rawson and F. P. Lock. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
02/10/2005
Date of Review
04/26/2007

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