"Then Hymen's sacred Bonds shall chain / My Heart to her fair Bosom, / There, while my Being does remain, / My Love more fresh shall blossom."

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)


Date
1718
Metaphor
"Then Hymen's sacred Bonds shall chain / My Heart to her fair Bosom, / There, while my Being does remain, / My Love more fresh shall blossom."
Metaphor in Context
The next Time I go o'er the Moor
She shall a Lover find me,
And that my Faith is firm and pure,
Tho I left her behind me:
Then Hymen's sacred Bonds shall chain
My Heart to her fair Bosom,
There, while my Being does remain,
My Love more fresh shall blossom
.
(Cf. p. 5 in 1718 ed.)
Provenance
Searching "bond" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 51 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1718, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1724, 1727, 1729, 1731, 1735, 1736, 1745, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1765, 1768, 1775, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1785, 1788, 1789, 1791, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1800).

See Scots Songs. By A. Ramsay. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author at the Mercury, opposite to Nidderte's-Wynd, 1718).

See also Poems by Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh: Thomas Ruddiman, 1721). <Link to ECCO>

Found in ECCO in Scots Songs. By A. Ramsay (1718), The Tea-Table Miscellany (1724) The Morning Interview, An Heroi-Comical Poem (1731), and Scottish Songs (1794). See also Poems by Allan Ramsay (1721, 1723, 1727, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1797, 1800), and Poems on Several Occasions (1776, 1780, 1793, 1794)

Text from The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
Date of Entry
01/06/2012

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