"Carnal heart, immersed in sin, / All a cage of birds unclean!"
— Wesley, John and Charles
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
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
Date
1742
Metaphor
"Carnal heart, immersed in sin, / All a cage of birds unclean!"
Metaphor in Context
Stubborn heart, ungrateful, hard,
With a red-hot iron sear'd!
Carnal heart, immersed in sin,
All a cage of birds unclean!
Downward all thy motions tend;
Lust, the beast, or pride, the fiend,
Show thee, since thy total fall,
Earthly, sensual, devilish all.
With a red-hot iron sear'd!
Carnal heart, immersed in sin,
All a cage of birds unclean!
Downward all thy motions tend;
Lust, the beast, or pride, the fiend,
Show thee, since thy total fall,
Earthly, sensual, devilish all.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); found again searching "heart" and "bird"
Citation
John and Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems. Published by John Wesley, M. A. Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; and Charles Wesley, M. A. Student of Christ-Church, Oxford. (Bristol: Printed and Sold by Felix Farley, J. Wilson, W. Frederick, T. Harris, 1742). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>
Text from 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
06/07/2005
Date of Review
04/29/2012
