Cupids in air y forms do move and conspire "conquering ev'ry Heart, or setting it on Fire"

— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Bentley, and S. Magnes [etc.]
Date
1687
Metaphor
Cupids in air y forms do move and conspire "conquering ev'ry Heart, or setting it on Fire"
Metaphor in Context
While from that glorious Field of mighty Love
  Cupids in aiery Forms do move,
    And subtily conspire
To strengthen Passion, and enrage Desire;
Still conquering ev'ry Heart, or setting it on Fire.
Provenance
Searching "conque" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
02/09/2005

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