"Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws, / The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes."

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Robert Crofts [etc.]
Date
1658
Metaphor
"Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws, / The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes."
Metaphor in Context
75.
Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws,
The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes.
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "gold" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
05/27/2005

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