"Oh! what is liberty regain'd, / When endless chains the mind controul?"
— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies
Date
1774
Metaphor
"Oh! what is liberty regain'd, / When endless chains the mind controul?"
Metaphor in Context
Whilst thus in Scotland I remain'd
A wretched captive on parole,
Her charms my raptur'd eyes detain'd,
Her virtues conquer'd all my soul:
Oh! what is liberty regain'd,
When endless chains the mind controul?
Fulfil, just heav'n, thy fixt decree,
And strike me dead, or set me free!
A wretched captive on parole,
Her charms my raptur'd eyes detain'd,
Her virtues conquer'd all my soul:
Oh! what is liberty regain'd,
When endless chains the mind controul?
Fulfil, just heav'n, thy fixt decree,
And strike me dead, or set me free!
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); found again searching "mind" and "chain"
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1774, 1784).
See The Graham; an Heroic Ballad: in Four Cantos. By Thomas Blacklock, D.D. (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1774). <Link to ESTC>
See also Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, With Some of Modern Date; Now First Collected, and Reprinted from Rare Copies and Mss. With Notes. By Thomas Evans. ([London]: Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand, 1784), vol. 3 of 4. <Link to ECCO>
See The Graham; an Heroic Ballad: in Four Cantos. By Thomas Blacklock, D.D. (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1774). <Link to ESTC>
See also Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, With Some of Modern Date; Now First Collected, and Reprinted from Rare Copies and Mss. With Notes. By Thomas Evans. ([London]: Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand, 1784), vol. 3 of 4. <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
02/14/2005
Date of Review
05/26/2011
