"Still pouring forth executive desire, / As bright, as brisk, and lasting, as the vestal fire."
— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date
October 1750, 1752, 1791
Metaphor
"Still pouring forth executive desire, / As bright, as brisk, and lasting, as the vestal fire."
Metaphor in Context
The less the body to the view,
The soul (like springs in closer durance pent)
Is all exertion, ever new,
Unceasing, unextinguish'd, and unspent;
Still pouring forth executive desire,
As bright, as brisk, and lasting, as the vestal fire.
The soul (like springs in closer durance pent)
Is all exertion, ever new,
Unceasing, unextinguish'd, and unspent;
Still pouring forth executive desire,
As bright, as brisk, and lasting, as the vestal fire.
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1752, 1791). Published in The Student, or The Oxford Monthly Miscellany (October, 1750) and Poems on Several Occasions.
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).
See The Student, or, the Oxford, and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany. vol. 2. (Oxford, 1750), pp. 26-8. <Link to ECCO>
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).
See The Student, or, the Oxford, and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany. vol. 2. (Oxford, 1750), pp. 26-8. <Link to ECCO>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Date of Entry
06/20/2011
