"That He, to Whom all Love is due, / Engraves upon pure loving Hearts."

— Byrom, John (1692-1763)


Place of Publication
Manchester
Publisher
Printed by J. Harrop
Date
1773, 1894-1895
Metaphor
"That He, to Whom all Love is due, / Engraves upon pure loving Hearts."
Metaphor in Context
I Love my God, and freely too,
With the Same Love that he imparts;
That He, to Whom all Love is due,
Engraves upon pure loving Hearts.

(pp. 191, ll. 1-4)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "engrav" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1773).

See Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes. (Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>

Text from The Poems of John Byrom, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895).
Date of Entry
03/08/2005
Date of Review
03/06/2009

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