"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart"
— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Hett ... and R. Dodsley [etc.]
Date
1739
Metaphor
"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart"
Metaphor in Context
Transporting thought! how shall I speak my joy?
In what gay figures paint the ecstasy?
O may'st thou reign exalted and ador'd,
Ador'd on earth as in the highest heav'n!
With all the shouting myriads round thy throne
I join my grateful voice--Ye glitt'ring crowds,
Receive a mortal militant below
To your triumphant choir; with you I'll bless
My great Redeemer's name--transporting name!
'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest,
Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death,
Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence.
In what gay figures paint the ecstasy?
O may'st thou reign exalted and ador'd,
Ador'd on earth as in the highest heav'n!
With all the shouting myriads round thy throne
I join my grateful voice--Ye glitt'ring crowds,
Receive a mortal militant below
To your triumphant choir; with you I'll bless
My great Redeemer's name--transporting name!
'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest,
Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death,
Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Elizabeth Singer Rowe, The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. The Greater Part now first published, by her Order, from her Original Manuscripts, By Mr. Theophilus Rowe. To which are added, Poems on several occasions, by Mr. Thomas Rowe. And to the whole is prefix'd, An Account of the Lives and Writings of the Authors, 2 vols. (London: printed for R. Hett and R. Dodsley, 1739). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
04/07/2005
