- Title:
- 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1797
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm), Sheet: 16 3/4 x 12 5/8 inches (42.5 x 32.1 cm), Plate: 15 5/8 x 12 5/8 inches (39.7 x 32.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "87 | His wrath inflamed? his tenderness on fire; | Like soft, smooth oil, outblazing other fires? | Can prayer, can praise avert it?--THOU! my all, | My theme, my inspiration, and my crown! | My strength in age, my rise in low estate! | My soul's ambition, pleasure, wealth!--my world! | My light in darkness, and my life in death! | My boast through time! bliss through eternity-- | Eternity, too short to speak thy praise! | Or fathom thy profound of love to man-- | To man of men the meanest, even to me! | My sacrifice! my GOD! what things are these! | What then art THOU? by what name shall I call THEE? | Knew I the name devout archangels use, | Devout archangels should the name enjoy | By me unrivall'd; thousands more sublime, | None half so dear as that, which, though unspoke | Still glows at heart: O how omnipotence | *Is lost in love! thou great PHILANTHROPIST! Father of angels! but the friend of man! | Like Jacob, fondest of the younger born! | THOU! Who didst save him, snatch the smoking brand | From out the flames, and quench it in thy blood; | How art thou pleased by bounty to distress! | To make us groan beneath our gratitude, | Too big for birth! to favour and confound; | To challenge, and to distance all return! | Lavish of love, stupendous heights to soar | And leave praise panting in the distant vale! | Thy right too great defrauds THEE of thy due;"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.10(36)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beard | children | literary theme | men | religious and mythological subject | text | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3566
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British, 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87), 1797
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