"The human Spirit, when it burns and shines, / 'Lamp of Jehovah" Solomon defines. / Now, as a Vessel, to contain the Whole, / This 'Lamp' denotes the Body, Oil the Soul"
— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Author
Place of Publication
Manchester
Publisher
Printed by J. Harrop
Date
1773, 1894-1895
Metaphor
"The human Spirit, when it burns and shines, / 'Lamp of Jehovah" Solomon defines. / Now, as a Vessel, to contain the Whole, / This 'Lamp' denotes the Body, Oil the Soul"
Metaphor in Context
The human Spirit, when it burns and shines,
"Lamp of Jehovah" Solomon defines.
Now, as a Vessel, to contain the Whole,
This "Lamp" denotes the Body, Oil the Soul
(As H---observes) which, tho' itself be dark,
Is capable of Life's enkindling Spark;
But, as consider'd in its own dark Root,
Still wants the Unction and the Light's Recruit.
"Lamp of Jehovah" Solomon defines.
Now, as a Vessel, to contain the Whole,
This "Lamp" denotes the Body, Oil the Soul
(As H---observes) which, tho' itself be dark,
Is capable of Life's enkindling Spark;
But, as consider'd in its own dark Root,
Still wants the Unction and the Light's Recruit.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "lamp" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1773).
See Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes. (Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Text from The Poems of John Byrom, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895).
See Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes. (Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Text from The Poems of John Byrom, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895).
Date of Entry
01/19/2006
Date of Review
10/30/2006
