"But now Within there's Civil War, / In Arms my rebel Passions are, / Their old Allegiance laid aside"

— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Benjamin Tooke [etc.]
Date
1686
Metaphor
"But now Within there's Civil War, / In Arms my rebel Passions are, / Their old Allegiance laid aside"
Metaphor in Context
But now Within there's Civil War,
  In Arms my rebel Passions are,
  Their old Allegiance laid aside,
  The Traitors now in Triumph ride;

That many-headed Monster has thrown down
Its lawful Monarch Reason from its Throne.
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
07/15/2004

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.