"WITH falsehood lurking in thy sordid breast, / And perj'ry's seal upon thy heart imprest, / Dar'st thou, Oh Christian! brave the sounding waves, / The treach'rous whirlwinds, and untrophied graves?"
— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Dodsley
Date
1766, 1806
Metaphor
"WITH falsehood lurking in thy sordid breast, / And perj'ry's seal upon thy heart imprest, / Dar'st thou, Oh Christian! brave the sounding waves, / The treach'rous whirlwinds, and untrophied graves?"
Metaphor in Context
WITH falsehood lurking in thy sordid breast,
And perj'ry's seal upon thy heart imprest,
Dar'st thou, Oh Christian! brave the sounding waves,
The treach'rous whirlwinds, and untrophied graves?
Regardless of my woes securely go,
No curse-fraught accents from these lips shall flow;
My fondest wish shall catch thy flying sail,
Attend thy course, and urge the fav'ring gale:
May ev'ry bliss thy God confers be thine,
And all thy share of woe compris'd in mine.
(p. 76; p. 3 in 1766 ed.)
And perj'ry's seal upon thy heart imprest,
Dar'st thou, Oh Christian! brave the sounding waves,
The treach'rous whirlwinds, and untrophied graves?
Regardless of my woes securely go,
No curse-fraught accents from these lips shall flow;
My fondest wish shall catch thy flying sail,
Attend thy course, and urge the fav'ring gale:
May ev'ry bliss thy God confers be thine,
And all thy share of woe compris'd in mine.
(p. 76; p. 3 in 1766 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "seal" in HDIS (Poetry); found again in ECCO-TCP. Confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 7 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1766, 1767, 1774, 1776, 1778, 1786, 1796).
Yarico to Inkle, An Epistle. By the Author of the Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1766). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Poems on Various Subjects: Viz. the Nunnery, the Magdalens, the Nun, Ruins of an Abbey, Yarico to Inkle, Il Latte, Fugitive Pieces. By Mr. Jerningham. (London: Printed for J. Robson, 1767). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Originally searching in Poems and Plays, by Mr. Jerningham. 4 vols. 9th Edition. (London: Printed by Luke Hansard for Nornaville and Fell, 1806).
Yarico to Inkle, An Epistle. By the Author of the Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1766). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Poems on Various Subjects: Viz. the Nunnery, the Magdalens, the Nun, Ruins of an Abbey, Yarico to Inkle, Il Latte, Fugitive Pieces. By Mr. Jerningham. (London: Printed for J. Robson, 1767). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Originally searching in Poems and Plays, by Mr. Jerningham. 4 vols. 9th Edition. (London: Printed by Luke Hansard for Nornaville and Fell, 1806).
Date of Entry
04/17/2005
