The "fond Breast" may be populated by "jealous Demons"
— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Work Title
Date
1733
Metaphor
The "fond Breast" may be populated by "jealous Demons"
Metaphor in Context
Or say at best, that negatively kind,
You inly mourn'd, and silently repin'd:
The jealous Demons in my own fond Breast,
Would all these Thoughts incessantly suggest,
And tell what Sense must fell, tho' Pity had supprest.
(ll. 27-31, p. 271)
You inly mourn'd, and silently repin'd:
The jealous Demons in my own fond Breast,
Would all these Thoughts incessantly suggest,
And tell what Sense must fell, tho' Pity had supprest.
(ll. 27-31, p. 271)
Categories
Provenance
After Jill Campbell's presentation at UCB: "Sporus, Sappho, and the Ape"
Citation
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Essays and Poems and 'Simplicity, a Comedy'. Ed. Robert Halsband and Isobel Grundy. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
Date of Entry
12/03/2003
