"No; not as Men / Each other see; but with Angelick Ken, / With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight, / With Emanations of transcendent Light, / He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine; / His glorious Body darting Rays divine"
— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Date
1735, 1745
Metaphor
"No; not as Men / Each other see; but with Angelick Ken, / With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight, / With Emanations of transcendent Light, / He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine; / His glorious Body darting Rays divine"
Metaphor in Context
But! Oh! Thou Vision Beatific! Where
Shall we find Words thy Wonders to declare?
Impossible: This perfect, highest Good
Can never, 'till Enjoy'd, be Understood.
See the Invisible? No; not as Men
Each other see; but with Angelick Ken,
With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight,
With Emanations of transcendent Light,
He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine;
His glorious Body darting Rays divine,
Thro' the immeasurable Space: As We
Like Stars of diff'rent Magnitudes shall be,
The radiant Sun to all Those Stars is He:
The Sun of Righteousness[1]--But This the least:
The Mind with God's bright Vision shall be blest.
Shall we find Words thy Wonders to declare?
Impossible: This perfect, highest Good
Can never, 'till Enjoy'd, be Understood.
See the Invisible? No; not as Men
Each other see; but with Angelick Ken,
With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight,
With Emanations of transcendent Light,
He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine;
His glorious Body darting Rays divine,
Thro' the immeasurable Space: As We
Like Stars of diff'rent Magnitudes shall be,
The radiant Sun to all Those Stars is He:
The Sun of Righteousness[1]--But This the least:
The Mind with God's bright Vision shall be blest.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "eye" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 12 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1734, 1735, 1736, 1745, 1748, 1749).
Four parts published separately in 1734-1735:
Text from Thoughts Upon The Four Last Things: Death; Judgment; Heaven; and Hell. A Poem In Four Parts. The Second Edition. To which are added, The I, CIV, and CXXXVII Psalms Paraphras'd (London: Printed for W. Russel, 1745). <Link to ESTC>
Four parts published separately in 1734-1735:
- Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things: Death; Judgment; Heaven; Hell. A Poem in Four Parts. Part I. Death. (London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1734). <Link to ESTC>
- Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things: Death; Judgment; Heaven; Hell. A Poem in Four Parts. Part II. Judgment. (London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1734). <Link to ESTC>
- Thoughts upon the four last things: death; judgment; heaven; hell. A poem in four parts. Part III. Heaven. (London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet street, 1735). <Link to ESTC>
- Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things: Death; Judgment; Heaven; Hell. A Poem in Four Parts. Part III. Heaven. (London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet street, 1735). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Thoughts Upon The Four Last Things: Death; Judgment; Heaven; and Hell. A Poem In Four Parts. The Second Edition. To which are added, The I, CIV, and CXXXVII Psalms Paraphras'd (London: Printed for W. Russel, 1745). <Link to ESTC>
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
04/18/2006
