"All Nature fades extinct; and She alone / Heard, felt, and seen, possesses every Thought, / Fills every Sense, and pants in every Vein."
Spring. A Poem. By Mr. Thomson
Text sourced from Oxford Text Archive at <a href="http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/4109">http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/4109</a>.<br>
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Poem first published <u>Spring. A Poem. By Mr. Thomson</u> (London: Printed and sold by A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head over-against St. Clement's Church in the Strand; and G. Strahan, at the Golden Ball in Cornhill, 1728). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112954030&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text revised and expanded between 1728 and 1746. Searching text from <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830), checked against earlier editions. Also reading James Sambrook's edition of <u>The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence</u> (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), which reproduces the 1746 edition of Thomson's poem.<br>
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Collected in <u>The Seasons, A Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem. By Mr. Thomson</u> (1730). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112624885&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;