"Glow, glow, my soul, with pure seraphic fire."
— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Newbery
Date
June, 1756
Metaphor
"Glow, glow, my soul, with pure seraphic fire."
Metaphor in Context
Ye strengthen'd feet, forth to his altar move;
Quicken, ye new-strung nerves, th'enraptur'd lyre;
Ye heav'n-directed eyes, o'erflow with love;
Glow, glow, my soul, with pure seraphic fire;
Deeds, thoughts, and words no more his mandates break,
But to his endless glory work, conceive, and speak.
(p. 40, ll. 73-8)
Quicken, ye new-strung nerves, th'enraptur'd lyre;
Ye heav'n-directed eyes, o'erflow with love;
Glow, glow, my soul, with pure seraphic fire;
Deeds, thoughts, and words no more his mandates break,
But to his endless glory work, conceive, and speak.
(p. 40, ll. 73-8)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1756, 1791).
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).
Hymn to the Supreme Being, on Recovery from a Dangerous Fit of Illness. by Christopher Smart, M.A. (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1756). <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).
Hymn to the Supreme Being, on Recovery from a Dangerous Fit of Illness. by Christopher Smart, M.A. (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1756). <Link to ESTC>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Date of Entry
06/22/2011
