"And as the Grindstone to unpolish'd Steel / Gives Edge, and Lustre: so my Mind, I feel / VVhetted, and glaz'd by Fortunes turning VVheel"

— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring
Date
1651
Metaphor
"And as the Grindstone to unpolish'd Steel / Gives Edge, and Lustre: so my Mind, I feel / VVhetted, and glaz'd by Fortunes turning VVheel"
Metaphor in Context
And as the Grindstone to unpolish'd Steel
Gives Edge, and Lustre: so my Mind, I feel
VVhetted, and glaz'd by Fortunes turning VVheel
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Sir Edward Sherburne, Poems and Translations Amorous, Lusory, Morall, Divine (London: Printed by W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring, 1651). <Link to EEBO>

See also Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, The Rape of Helen, a Comment Thereon, With Several Other Poems and Translations (London: Printed by W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring, 1651).
Date of Entry
06/09/2005

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