"If I cant have the pleasure to conquer yr heart / I shall have some at least in complaining."
— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Author
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.
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.
Categories
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
