"My Soul untun'd, unstrung, doth wait on Thee / To teach her how to sing thy MYSTERY."
— Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Printed at the University-Press, for Tho. Bennet
Date
1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
Metaphor
"My Soul untun'd, unstrung, doth wait on Thee / To teach her how to sing thy MYSTERY."
Metaphor in Context
Defiance other Helicons! O may
These precious Founts my Vow and Heart refine!
My task, dear LOVE, art Thou: if every Bay
Court my poor Muse, I'll hang it on thy shrine.
My Soul untun'd, unstrung, doth wait on Thee
To teach her how to sing thy MYSTERY.
(I.4, p. 1)
These precious Founts my Vow and Heart refine!
My task, dear LOVE, art Thou: if every Bay
Court my poor Muse, I'll hang it on thy shrine.
My Soul untun'd, unstrung, doth wait on Thee
To teach her how to sing thy MYSTERY.
(I.4, p. 1)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Reading second edition of the 24-book poem in ECCO: Joseph Beaumont, Psyche, or Love's Mystery, in XXIV Cantos: Displaying the Intercourse Betwixt Christ, and the Soul, 2nd ed., with corrections throughout, and four new cantos, never before printed (Cambridge, 1702). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
04/26/2013
