"Oft thro' my eyes my soul has flown, / And wanton'd on that iv'ry throne [Ethelinda's breast]"
— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author, by W. Strahan
Date
1752, 1791
Metaphor
"Oft thro' my eyes my soul has flown, / And wanton'd on that iv'ry throne [Ethelinda's breast]"
Metaphor in Context
Oft thro' my eyes my soul has flown,
And wanton'd on that iv'ry throne:
There with extatic transport burn'd,
And thought it was to heav'n return'd.
Tell me is the omen true,
Shall the body follow too?
And wanton'd on that iv'ry throne:
There with extatic transport burn'd,
And thought it was to heav'n return'd.
Tell me is the omen true,
Shall the body follow too?
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" in HDIS (Poetry); found again reading
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1752).
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 Poems on Several Occasions. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge. (London: Printed for the author, by W. Strahan; and sold by J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1752). <Link to ESTC>
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 Poems on Several Occasions. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge. (London: Printed for the author, by W. Strahan; and sold by J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1752). <Link to ESTC>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Date of Entry
07/30/2004
Date of Review
06/20/2011
