"From Heav'n was with a Silver Cord let down, / And into the Souls mass divinely thrown, / To be its Salt, miraculously contriv'd"
— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by J. D. for John Baker ... and Henry Brome
Date
1679
Metaphor
"From Heav'n was with a Silver Cord let down, / And into the Souls mass divinely thrown, / To be its Salt, miraculously contriv'd"
Metaphor in Context
Yet none of ours is what we' have stol'n the name,
That Idol, which we thus with Mirtles crown,
But with our form from Heav'n at once it came,
From Heav'n was with a Silver Cord let down,
And into the Souls mass divinely thrown,
To be its Salt, miraculously contriv'd;
And first in Heav'n the name of Love was known,
From whence at length it hither was deriv'd,
And here a while such, and so call'd in pleasure liv'd.
That Idol, which we thus with Mirtles crown,
But with our form from Heav'n at once it came,
From Heav'n was with a Silver Cord let down,
And into the Souls mass divinely thrown,
To be its Salt, miraculously contriv'd;
And first in Heav'n the name of Love was known,
From whence at length it hither was deriv'd,
And here a while such, and so call'd in pleasure liv'd.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "seal" 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
04/17/2005
