" My heart within like wax doth melt, / And on Thy cross my nature bleeds."

— Wesley, John and Charles


Date
1868
Metaphor
" My heart within like wax doth melt, / And on Thy cross my nature bleeds."
Metaphor in Context
Gross darkness, such as may be felt,
  Egyptian night my soul o'erspreads;
My heart within like wax doth melt,
  And on Thy cross my nature bleeds.

Provenance
Searching "wax" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry); found again searching soul.
Citation
Text from The Poetical works of John and Charles Wesley, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>

More than 5,100 hymns written by Wesley for Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, with six books of material left (over 1,000 hymns) in manuscript. Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."
Date of Entry
03/27/2005

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