"Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies, / Till some lov'd objects strikes her wand'ring eyes, / Whose silken fetters all the senses bind, / And soft captivity involves the mind."
— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753-1784)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Bell
Date
1773
Metaphor
"Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies, / Till some lov'd objects strikes her wand'ring eyes, / Whose silken fetters all the senses bind, / And soft captivity involves the mind."
Metaphor in Context
Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies,
Till some lov'd objects strikes her wand'ring eyes,
Whose silken fetters all the senses bind,
And soft captivity involves the mind.
(ll. 9-12)
Till some lov'd objects strikes her wand'ring eyes,
Whose silken fetters all the senses bind,
And soft captivity involves the mind.
(ll. 9-12)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 5 entries in ESTC (1773, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1793).
See Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England. (London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). <Link to ESTC>
Reading Vincent Carretta's Unchained Voices (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2004): 62.
See Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England. (London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). <Link to ESTC>
Reading Vincent Carretta's Unchained Voices (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2004): 62.
Date of Entry
02/09/2011
Date of Review
06/26/2011
