"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Newbery
Date
June, 1756
Metaphor
"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
Metaphor in Context
But soul-rejoicing health again returns,
The blood meanders gentle in each vein,
The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns,
And exil'd reason takes her seat again--
Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more,
To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore.
(p. 39, ll. 43-8)
The blood meanders gentle in each vein,
The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns,
And exil'd reason takes her seat again--
Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more,
To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore.
(p. 39, ll. 43-8)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1756, 1791).
Text from The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published. 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).
Hymn to the Supreme Being, on Recovery from a Dangerous Fit of Illness. by Christopher Smart, M.A. (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1756). <Link to ESTC>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Text from The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published. 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).
Hymn to the Supreme Being, on Recovery from a Dangerous Fit of Illness. by Christopher Smart, M.A. (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1756). <Link to ESTC>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Date of Entry
06/22/2011
