Christopher Smart

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

— Christopher Smart

For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the…

— Christopher Smart

Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.

— Christopher Smart

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

— Christopher Smart

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

— Christopher Smart

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

— Christopher Smart

For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped. For the dexterity of his defense is an…

— Christopher Smart

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

— Christopher Smart

“For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.”

— Christopher Smart

There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

— Christopher Smart

And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.

— Christopher Smart

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

— Christopher Smart

“For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.”

— Christopher Smart

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

— Christopher Smart

Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And…

— Christopher Smart

Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!

— Christopher Smart