ABSTRACT

M ETAPHOR is probably the most important and frequent figure of speech in poetry and in rhetorical prose. But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning ....

ANONYMOUS (sixteenth century)

SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626): Nosce Teipsutn

My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew' th.