"This is that incense of the heart / Whose fragrance smells to heaven."
— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Work Title
Date
1791
Metaphor
"This is that incense of the heart / Whose fragrance smells to heaven."
Metaphor in Context
To be resign'd when ills betide,
Patient when favours are deni'd,
And pleas'd with favours given,--
Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part;
This is that incense of the heart
Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
Patient when favours are deni'd,
And pleas'd with favours given,--
Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part;
This is that incense of the heart
Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
Categories
Provenance
Footnote in Bartleby's edition of Bartlett's Familiar connects Cotton and Pierpont.
Date of Entry
04/15/2006
