Nature may imprint her seal on the heart
— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
A. Millar, in the Strand
Date
1746
Metaphor
Nature may imprint her seal on the heart
Metaphor in Context
O Nature boon, from whom proceed
Each forceful thought, each prompted deed;
If but from thee I hope to feel,
On all my heart imprint thy seal!
Let some retreating Cynic find
Those oft-turned scrolls I leave behind:
The Sports and I this hour agree
To rove thy scene-full world with thee!
(ll. 71-8, pp. 476-7)
Each forceful thought, each prompted deed;
If but from thee I hope to feel,
On all my heart imprint thy seal!
Let some retreating Cynic find
Those oft-turned scrolls I leave behind:
The Sports and I this hour agree
To rove thy scene-full world with thee!
(ll. 71-8, pp. 476-7)
Categories
Provenance
HDIS (Poetry); Found again searching "heart" and "seal"
Citation
Ed. Roger Lonsdale. The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith. London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972
Date of Entry
11/21/2003
