translunary

Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had.

You know the old recipe for Wine of Cos, that full-bodied, seignorial, superlative, translunary wine.

The day Emerson wrote Bacchus he had in him, as Michael Drayton said of Marlowe, "those brave translunary things that the first poets had."

Man, in his earth life, cannot always be "high contemplative", and indulge in "brave translunary things"; he must welcome again, it must be confessed, "land the solid and safe".

Even as a poet Donne       "Had in him those brave translunary things       That our first poets had."