"But Charms so much divine / Hold a long Empire of the Heart."
— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence
Date
1706, 1709
Metaphor
"But Charms so much divine / Hold a long Empire of the Heart."
Metaphor in Context
All Natures Art shall never cure
The Heavenly Pains I found,
And 'tis beyond all Beauties Power
To make another Wound:
Earthly Beauties grow and fade,
Nature may heal the Wounds She made,
But Charms so much Divine
Hold a long Empire of the Heart,
What Heaven has joyn'd shall never part,
And Jesus must be mine.
(pp. 82-3 in 1706 ed.; cf. p. 126-7 in 1709 ed.)
The Heavenly Pains I found,
And 'tis beyond all Beauties Power
To make another Wound:
Earthly Beauties grow and fade,
Nature may heal the Wounds She made,
But Charms so much Divine
Hold a long Empire of the Heart,
What Heaven has joyn'd shall never part,
And Jesus must be mine.
(pp. 82-3 in 1706 ed.; cf. p. 126-7 in 1709 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "empire" in HDIS (Poetry); text from ECCO-TCP
Citation
35 entries in ESTC (1709, 1715, 1731, 1737, 1743, 1748, 1750, 1751, 1753, 1758, 1762, 1764, 1765, 1770, 1772, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799). Compare two-book and three-book versions.
Titled "Wishing Him Ever with Me" in Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. in Two Books. (London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence, 1706). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO><Link to ECCO-TCP>
See also Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). <Link to ECCO>
Searching The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D., 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810). Found under the title "The Fairest and Only Beloved"
Titled "Wishing Him Ever with Me" in Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. in Two Books. (London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence, 1706). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO><Link to ECCO-TCP>
See also Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). <Link to ECCO>
Searching The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D., 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810). Found under the title "The Fairest and Only Beloved"
Date of Entry
08/22/2004
Date of Review
02/07/2014
