"Things that the least of drossy mixture hold, / Last longest; my Hearts flames Ætherial be, / More pure than seven times refined Gold / Than Cedar's flames: rays of a Deitie / They are."
— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. G. for Henry Marsh and Peter Dring
Date
1660
Metaphor
"Things that the least of drossy mixture hold, / Last longest; my Hearts flames Ætherial be, / More pure than seven times refined Gold / Than Cedar's flames: rays of a Deitie / They are."
Metaphor in Context
Things that the least of drossy mixture hold,
Last longest; my Hearts flames Ætherial be,
More pure than seven times refined Gold,
Than Cedar's flames: rays of a Deitie
They are. It is the purity of Love
Which best of all its constancy can prove.
Last longest; my Hearts flames Ætherial be,
More pure than seven times refined Gold,
Than Cedar's flames: rays of a Deitie
They are. It is the purity of Love
Which best of all its constancy can prove.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "dross" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Full-Text Database
See also Samuel Pordage, Poems Upon Several Occasions by S.P (London: W.G. for Henry Marsh and Peter Dring, 1660). <Link to EEBO>
See also Samuel Pordage, Poems Upon Several Occasions by S.P (London: W.G. for Henry Marsh and Peter Dring, 1660). <Link to EEBO>
Theme
Refinement
Date of Entry
07/19/2005
Date of Review
12/21/2011
