"And strangely doth the Vast Abyss contain / Within the Vaster Ocean of his Brain."
— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Printed by John Hayes for the Author, And are to be sold by Francis Hicks ... And by Thomas Basset ... and Samuel Heyrick
Date
1691
Metaphor
"And strangely doth the Vast Abyss contain / Within the Vaster Ocean of his Brain."
Metaphor in Context
For Heyrick's boundless and unwearied Mind
To this our Upper World can't be confin'd;
But ransacks Thetis's Bosom and explores
Her Inmost Caverns and her Utmost Shores,
And strangely doth the Vast Abyss contain
Within the Vaster Ocean of his Brain.
To this our Upper World can't be confin'd;
But ransacks Thetis's Bosom and explores
Her Inmost Caverns and her Utmost Shores,
And strangely doth the Vast Abyss contain
Within the Vaster Ocean of his Brain.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
01/18/2006
