"COME let me Love: or is my Mind / Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?"
— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence
Date
1706, 1709
Metaphor
"COME let me Love: or is my Mind / Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?"
Metaphor in Context
COME let me Love: or is my Mind
Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?
I see the Blessed Fair One bend
And stoop t' embrace me from the Skies!
(p. 80 in 1706 ed.)
Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?
I see the Blessed Fair One bend
And stoop t' embrace me from the Skies!
(p. 80 in 1706 ed.)
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Provenance
Reading; text from ECCO-TCP
Citation
36 entries in ESTC (1706, 1709, 1715, 1731, 1737, 1743, 1748, 1750, 1751, 1753, 1758, 1762, 1764, 1765, 1770, 1772, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799).
See Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Two books. (London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence, 1706). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See also Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). <Link to ECCO>
Searching text from The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D., 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810). [Titled "Desiring to Love Christ" in 1810 version searched; confirmed in 1706 edition]
See Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Two books. (London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence, 1706). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See also Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). <Link to ECCO>
Searching text from The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D., 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810). [Titled "Desiring to Love Christ" in 1810 version searched; confirmed in 1706 edition]
Date of Entry
02/07/2014
