"My Heart your Empire now disdains, / And Frown, or Smile, all's one to me."
— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Joseph Knight, and Francis Saunders
Date
1688
Metaphor
"My Heart your Empire now disdains, / And Frown, or Smile, all's one to me."
Metaphor in Context
My Heart your Empire now disdains,
And Frown, or Smile, all's one to me:
The Slave has broke his Servial Chains,
And spight of all your Pride is free
From the Tyrannick Slavery.
And Frown, or Smile, all's one to me:
The Slave has broke his Servial Chains,
And spight of all your Pride is free
From the Tyrannick Slavery.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "empire" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
"Cease, Cease, That Vain and Useless Scorn," from Lycidus: or the Lover in Fashion. Being an Account from Lycidus to Lysander, Of his Voyage from the island of love. From the French. By the same author Of the Voyage to the Isle of love. Together with a miscellany of New Poems. By Several Hands (London: Printed for Joseph Knight, and Francis Saunders, 1688). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/19/2004
