"Thy appetites in easy tides / (As reason's luminary guides) / Soft flow--no wind can work them to a storm, / Correctly quick, dispassionately warm."
Ode. On Good-Nature.
2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1752, 1791).<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). See "On Good Nature. Ode V," vol. I, pp. 8-10.<br>
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See also "On Good-Nature" in <u>Poems on Several Occasions. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge</u>. (London: Printed for the Author, by W. Strahan; and sold by J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paulâ€™s Church-Yard, 1752), pp. 1-3.<br>
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Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., <u>Christopher Smart: Selected Poems</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).