"This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart"
— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown [etc.]
Date
1816
Metaphor
"This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart"
Metaphor in Context
"As thus I spoke, encrimson'd blushes dy'd
"Her cheek, her bosom--Fault'ring she replied,
"'Rise, royal Sir--nay, spare me, I implore--
"'I cannot answer--may not hear thee more--
"'Some other time perhaps'--'Oh! why not now,'
"I cried, 'thy Orosmanes' suit allow?
"'Since of thy charms the vassal I became,
"'Pure was my love, and holy was my flame,
"'Pure as thy peerless self! My realm I left,
"'Thy humblest slave I grew, of all bereft,
"'Save only of my honour and my truth;
"'Doom'd in obscurity to pass my youth,
"'Studious 'bove all that secret to conceal,
"'Which jealous honour made me now reveal.
"'This was love's doing: from my constant heart
"'The image stampt by him can ne'er depart.
"Her cheek, her bosom--Fault'ring she replied,
"'Rise, royal Sir--nay, spare me, I implore--
"'I cannot answer--may not hear thee more--
"'Some other time perhaps'--'Oh! why not now,'
"I cried, 'thy Orosmanes' suit allow?
"'Since of thy charms the vassal I became,
"'Pure was my love, and holy was my flame,
"'Pure as thy peerless self! My realm I left,
"'Thy humblest slave I grew, of all bereft,
"'Save only of my honour and my truth;
"'Doom'd in obscurity to pass my youth,
"'Studious 'bove all that secret to conceal,
"'Which jealous honour made me now reveal.
"'This was love's doing: from my constant heart
"'The image stampt by him can ne'er depart.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "stamp" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
04/07/2005
