"For me in vain is Nature drest, / While Joy's a stranger to my breast"
— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Author
Work Title
Date
1788
Metaphor
"For me in vain is Nature drest, / While Joy's a stranger to my breast"
Metaphor in Context
For thee is laughing Nature gay,
For thee she pours the vernal day:
For me in vain is Nature drest,
While Joy's a stranger to my breast.
For thee she pours the vernal day:
For me in vain is Nature drest,
While Joy's a stranger to my breast.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "stranger" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Burns, Robert and Low, Robert. The Songs of Robert Burns. New York: Routledge, 1993, pp. 300-301.
Date of Entry
03/06/2006
