"'How sweetly Women bill and coo! [...] 'No gall finds room within their breast, / 'There Turtle Love erects his nest."
— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies ... G. Robinson ... and T. Cadell [etc.]
Date
1773
Metaphor
"'How sweetly Women bill and coo! [...] 'No gall finds room within their breast, / 'There Turtle Love erects his nest."
Metaphor in Context
"How sweetly Women bill and coo!
"How loving, tender, and how true!
"No gall finds room within their breast,
"There Turtle Love erects his nest;
"Ev'n when they most displeas'd appear,
"The Turtle's plaintive moan we hear.
"How loving, tender, and how true!
"No gall finds room within their breast,
"There Turtle Love erects his nest;
"Ev'n when they most displeas'd appear,
"The Turtle's plaintive moan we hear.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
08/30/2005
