"The less the body to the view, / The soul (like springs in closer durance pent) / Is all exertion, ever new, / Unceasing, unextinguish'd, and unspent"
Ode. The Author Apologizes to a Lady, for His being a Little Man 
3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1752, 1791). Published in <u>The Student, or The Oxford Monthly Miscellany</u> (October, 1750) and <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u>.<br>
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Text from <u>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.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).<br>
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See <u>The Student, or, the Oxford, and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany.</u> vol. 2. (Oxford, 1750), pp. 26-8. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315312770&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., <u>Christopher Smart: Selected Poems</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).