"Whether we send our Reason's piercing Rays / Beneath the Great, unbounded Deep, / Where Storms and Tempests sleep, / Whether unrein'd Imagination strays / Thro' the black, Howling Desart's pathless Ways, / The Deep and Howling Wilderness declare / The Omnipresent Godhead there."
— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House
Date
1730
Metaphor
"Whether we send our Reason's piercing Rays / Beneath the Great, unbounded Deep, / Where Storms and Tempests sleep, / Whether unrein'd Imagination strays / Thro' the black, Howling Desart's pathless Ways, / The Deep and Howling Wilderness declare / The Omnipresent Godhead there."
Metaphor in Context
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Whether we send our Reason's piercing Rays
Beneath the Great, unbounded Deep,
Where Storms and Tempests sleep,
Whether unrein'd Imagination strays
Thro' the black, Howling Desart's pathless Ways,
The Deep and Howling Wilderness declare
The Omnipresent Godhead there:
The Calms and Tempests both proclaim
By wondrous Contrariety
The Presence of the Deity,
Tho' various the Effects, the Godhead still the same.
Whether we send our Reason's piercing Rays
Beneath the Great, unbounded Deep,
Where Storms and Tempests sleep,
Whether unrein'd Imagination strays
Thro' the black, Howling Desart's pathless Ways,
The Deep and Howling Wilderness declare
The Omnipresent Godhead there:
The Calms and Tempests both proclaim
By wondrous Contrariety
The Presence of the Deity,
Tho' various the Effects, the Godhead still the same.
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Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1730).
Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward. (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <Link to ESTC>
Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward. (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/25/2013
