"Or what is Hair but threads of gold / That Lovers Hearts in fetters hold?"
— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Author
Work Title
Date
1928
Metaphor
"Or what is Hair but threads of gold / That Lovers Hearts in fetters hold?"
Metaphor in Context
Welth is all these, she that has that
Is any thing she would be at:
Wit, Bewty, honor, virtu, vice
Are always valu'd by the price;
For what are lips, and eies, and Teeth
Which Bewty fights and Conquers with,
But Rubys, pearles and Diamonds,
With which a Philter Love Compounds?
Or what is Hair but threads of gold
That Lovers Hearts in fetters hold?
Is any thing she would be at:
Wit, Bewty, honor, virtu, vice
Are always valu'd by the price;
For what are lips, and eies, and Teeth
Which Bewty fights and Conquers with,
But Rubys, pearles and Diamonds,
With which a Philter Love Compounds?
Or what is Hair but threads of gold
That Lovers Hearts in fetters hold?
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).
Date of Entry
05/27/2005
Date of Review
05/26/2011
