"Thy Paradise, thro' whose fair Hills of Joy / Those Springs of everlasting Vigor range, / Which make Souls drunk with Heav'n, which cleanse away / All Earth from Dust, and Flesh to Spirit change."
— Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Printed at the University-Press, for Tho. Bennet
Date
1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
Metaphor
"Thy Paradise, thro' whose fair Hills of Joy / Those Springs of everlasting Vigor range, / Which make Souls drunk with Heav'n, which cleanse away / All Earth from Dust, and Flesh to Spirit change."
Metaphor in Context
Thy Paradise, thro' whose fair Hills of Joy
Those Springs of everlasting Vigor range,
Which make Souls drunk with Heav'n, which cleanse away
All Earth from Dust, and Flesh to Spirit change.
Wise loyal Springs, whose current to no Sea
Its panting voyage ever steers, but Thee.
(I.2, p. 1)
Those Springs of everlasting Vigor range,
Which make Souls drunk with Heav'n, which cleanse away
All Earth from Dust, and Flesh to Spirit change.
Wise loyal Springs, whose current to no Sea
Its panting voyage ever steers, but Thee.
(I.2, p. 1)
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Reading
Citation
Reading second edition of the 24-book poem in ECCO: Joseph Beaumont, Psyche, or Love's Mystery, in XXIV Cantos: Displaying the Intercourse Betwixt Christ, and the Soul, 2nd ed., with corrections throughout, and four new cantos, never before printed (Cambridge, 1702). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
04/26/2013
