"Looking me then to th' very Heart, / And with her Eye engraving there, / What e're she spake, in a deep Character, / Fixt and Compos'd"
— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by J. D. for John Baker and Henry Brome
Date
1679
Metaphor
"Looking me then to th' very Heart, / And with her Eye engraving there, / What e're she spake, in a deep Character, / Fixt and Compos'd"
Metaphor in Context
A Strain so sweet my Tongue unloos'd,
And fearing now no more the Shame
I had conceiv'd, upon my hasty Flame,
Least my first Love should deem her self abus'd,
Thus I repli'd: "If this be true
("And who dare doubt it once, since said by you)
"Thrice happy Father, and thrice happy Day,
"In which you two into the World were brought!
"And such from hence shall all that time be thought,
"Which others tell I' have fondly thrown away.
"'Tis now my Trouble more,
"Than e're it was my Joy before,
"That I reacht here so late, or did no sooner stray.
"But if I'm worthy, and 'tis fit to show
"Of your Condition more than what I know,
"A greater Honour you to none can ever do.
Looking me then to th' very Heart,
And with her Eye engraving there,
What e're she spake, in a deep Character,
Fixt and Compos'd she thus resum'd her part.
And fearing now no more the Shame
I had conceiv'd, upon my hasty Flame,
Least my first Love should deem her self abus'd,
Thus I repli'd: "If this be true
("And who dare doubt it once, since said by you)
"Thrice happy Father, and thrice happy Day,
"In which you two into the World were brought!
"And such from hence shall all that time be thought,
"Which others tell I' have fondly thrown away.
"'Tis now my Trouble more,
"Than e're it was my Joy before,
"That I reacht here so late, or did no sooner stray.
"But if I'm worthy, and 'tis fit to show
"Of your Condition more than what I know,
"A greater Honour you to none can ever do.
Looking me then to th' very Heart,
And with her Eye engraving there,
What e're she spake, in a deep Character,
Fixt and Compos'd she thus resum'd her part.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "engrav" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in the ESTC (1679, 1713).
Text from A Paraphrase Upon the Canticles, and Some Select Hymns of the New and Old Testament, With Other Occasional Compositions in English Verse. by Samuel Woodford (London: Printed by J. D. for John Baker and Henry Brome, 1679). <Link to EEBO>
Text from A Paraphrase Upon the Canticles, and Some Select Hymns of the New and Old Testament, With Other Occasional Compositions in English Verse. by Samuel Woodford (London: Printed by J. D. for John Baker and Henry Brome, 1679). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
03/08/2005
