"That fruit thy covenant may yield, / Which is upon my forehead seal'd, / And on my heart ingraft."
— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Dryden Leach for the Author
Date
1765
Metaphor
"That fruit thy covenant may yield, / Which is upon my forehead seal'd, / And on my heart ingraft."
Metaphor in Context
My cautious feet from folly's maze
I have refrain'd, and all the ways
Of subtlety and craft,
That fruit thy covenant may yield,
Which is upon my forehead seal'd,
And on my heart ingraft.
I have refrain'd, and all the ways
Of subtlety and craft,
That fruit thy covenant may yield,
Which is upon my forehead seal'd,
And on my heart ingraft.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1765).
Text from The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published. 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).
See also A Translation of the Psalms of David, Attempted in the Spirit of Christianity, and Adapted to the Divine Service. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Some Time Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and Scholar of the University. (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for the author; and sold by C. Bathhurst in Fleet-Street; and W. Flexney, at Gray’s Inn Gate; and T. Merril, at Cambridge, 1765). <Link to ESTC>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Text from The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published. 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).
See also A Translation of the Psalms of David, Attempted in the Spirit of Christianity, and Adapted to the Divine Service. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Some Time Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and Scholar of the University. (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for the author; and sold by C. Bathhurst in Fleet-Street; and W. Flexney, at Gray’s Inn Gate; and T. Merril, at Cambridge, 1765). <Link to ESTC>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Date of Entry
04/17/2005
