"Religion stamp'd her sorrow-melting heart"
— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1754
Metaphor
"Religion stamp'd her sorrow-melting heart"
Metaphor in Context
The Widow'd Fair a solemn Mourning kept;
Whole days she fasted, and whole nights she wept;
Till by degrees the storm that toss'd her mind,
Into a melancholy calm declin'd.
Forlorn at first, in penitence and pray'r
She sought for comfort, and she found it there;
Religion stamp'd her sorrow-melting heart;
Inspir'd new longings, and allay'd its smart;
And taught her watry eyes again to shine,
And tun'd her Soul anew to Love Divine;
If by resemblance of a flame so chast,
The present Passion might beguile the past.
Whole days she fasted, and whole nights she wept;
Till by degrees the storm that toss'd her mind,
Into a melancholy calm declin'd.
Forlorn at first, in penitence and pray'r
She sought for comfort, and she found it there;
Religion stamp'd her sorrow-melting heart;
Inspir'd new longings, and allay'd its smart;
And taught her watry eyes again to shine,
And tun'd her Soul anew to Love Divine;
If by resemblance of a flame so chast,
The present Passion might beguile the past.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "stamp" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose. By George Jeffreys (London: Printed for the Author, 1754). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
04/07/2005
