"O Lord, my God, with shame I own / That other lords have sway'd, / Have in my heart set up their throne, / And abject I obey'd."
— Wesley, John and Charles
Author
Place of Publication
Bristol, Bath, and London
Publisher
Printed by Felix Farley, W. Frederick, T. Harris
Date
1742
Metaphor
"O Lord, my God, with shame I own / That other lords have sway'd, / Have in my heart set up their throne, / And abject I obey'd."
Metaphor in Context
O Lord, my God, with shame I own
That other lords have sway'd,
Have in my heart set up their throne,
And abject I obey'd.
(p. 24; p. 91 in Google Books)
That other lords have sway'd,
Have in my heart set up their throne,
And abject I obey'd.
(p. 24; p. 91 in Google Books)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
More than 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1742, 1745, 1756, 1799). See also the many other collections of hymns which select from or incorporate hymns from the original.
See 1742 edition of Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley, in Castle-Green; J. Wilson in Wine-Street; and at the School-Room in the Horse-Fair: in Bath, by W. Frederick, Bookseller: and in London, by T. Harris on the Bridge; also, at the Foundery in Upper-Moor-Fields, 1742). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Found in Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley, 1745), 188. <Link to ECCO>
Also found in The Repentance of Believers: a Sermon on Mark I. 15. by John Wesley, M. A. (London: Printed for G. Whitfield, 1799), p. 24. <Link to ECCO>
Found searching in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>
See 1742 edition of Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley, in Castle-Green; J. Wilson in Wine-Street; and at the School-Room in the Horse-Fair: in Bath, by W. Frederick, Bookseller: and in London, by T. Harris on the Bridge; also, at the Foundery in Upper-Moor-Fields, 1742). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Found in Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley, 1745), 188. <Link to ECCO>
Also found in The Repentance of Believers: a Sermon on Mark I. 15. by John Wesley, M. A. (London: Printed for G. Whitfield, 1799), p. 24. <Link to ECCO>
Found searching in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>
Date of Entry
08/09/2004
Date of Review
02/09/2014
