"Open to Love your long-shut Breast, / And entertain its sweetest Guest."
— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
J. Nutt
Date
1702
Metaphor
"Open to Love your long-shut Breast, / And entertain its sweetest Guest."
Metaphor in Context
Phillis, you have enough enjoy'd
The Pleasures of Disdain;
Methinks your Pride shou'd now be cloy'd,
And grow it self again:
Open to Love your long-shut Breast,
And entertain its sweetest Guest.
The Pleasures of Disdain;
Methinks your Pride shou'd now be cloy'd,
And grow it self again:
Open to Love your long-shut Breast,
And entertain its sweetest Guest.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "guest" and "breast" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Sedley, Sir Charles. The Miscellaneous Works of the honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bart.. London: J. Nutt, 1702.
Date of Entry
03/15/2006
