"Society divine! Immortal Minds! / Still visit thus my Nights, for you reserv'd, / And mount my soaring Soul to Deeds like yours."
Winter. A Poem.
Text from Jack Lynch's transcription of 1726 printing &lt;<a ref="http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/winter.html">Link</a>&gt;.<br>
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See <u>Winter. A Poem. By James Thomson</u>. (London: N. Blandford, 1726). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3311406098&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to 2nd edition in ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=H8cIAAAAQAAJ">Link to 3rd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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The poem was much revised and expanded between 1726 and 1746. I first searched metaphors in <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830) through Stanford HDIS interface, later 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 is based on the 1746 edition of Thomson's poem.<br>
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First 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; Reprinted, revised and expanded in 1744, 1746. See also <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (1744). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112456916&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; And <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (1746). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315865100&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;