"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles


Place of Publication
Bristol
Publisher
Printed by E. Farley
Date
1762
Metaphor
"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."
Metaphor in Context
I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands.

--xlix. 16.

Engraven with an iron pen
My name upon Thy hands is seen:
Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart
Engrave Thy name upon my heart
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Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "engrav" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1762, 1796).

See Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, 2 vols. (Bristol: Printed by E. Farley, 1762). <Link to ESTC><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>

More than 5,100 hymns written by Wesley, with six books of material left (over 1,000 hymns) in manuscript. Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."
Date of Entry
03/08/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.