"Thou [Eagle] servant of almighty JOVE, / Who, free and swift as thought, could'st rove / To the bleak north's extremest goal."
— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Work Title
Date
June 1751, 1752
Metaphor
"Thou [Eagle] servant of almighty JOVE, / Who, free and swift as thought, could'st rove / To the bleak north's extremest goal."
Metaphor in Context
Imperial bird, who wont to soar
High o'er the rolling cloud,
Where Hyperborean mountains hoar
Their heads in Ether shroud;--
Thou servant of almighty JOVE,
Who, free and swift as thought, could'st rove
To the bleak north's extremest goal;--
Thou, who magnanimous could'st bear
The sovereign thund'rer's arms in air,
And shake thy native pole!--
(p. 3, ll. 1-10)
High o'er the rolling cloud,
Where Hyperborean mountains hoar
Their heads in Ether shroud;--
Thou servant of almighty JOVE,
Who, free and swift as thought, could'st rove
To the bleak north's extremest goal;--
Thou, who magnanimous could'st bear
The sovereign thund'rer's arms in air,
And shake thy native pole!--
(p. 3, ll. 1-10)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
9 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1752, 1764, 1766, 1772, 1777, 1780, 1791, 1798). First published in The Student, or The Oxford Monthly Miscellany (July, 1751) and Poems on Several Occasions. Frequently republished in The Oxford Sausage.
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 The Student, or, the Oxford, and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany. Vol. 2. (Oxford, 1750), pp. 356-7. <Link to ECCO>
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 The Student, or, the Oxford, and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany. Vol. 2. (Oxford, 1750), pp. 356-7. <Link to ECCO>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Date of Entry
06/20/2011
Date of Review
06/20/2011
