"Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep, / Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul."
— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
F. C. and J. Rivington
Date
1816
Metaphor
"Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep, / Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul."
Metaphor in Context
Oft has the wintry blast deformed the year,
And Zephyr oft restored the vernal bloom,
Florio! Since first I breathed the sigh sincere,
And twin’d the cypress garland round thy tomb.
Tho’ long composed thy peaceful ashes sleep
In worlds remote beneath the Southern pole;
Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep,
Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul.
(pp. 47-8)
And Zephyr oft restored the vernal bloom,
Florio! Since first I breathed the sigh sincere,
And twin’d the cypress garland round thy tomb.
Tho’ long composed thy peaceful ashes sleep
In worlds remote beneath the Southern pole;
Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep,
Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul.
(pp. 47-8)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Elizabeth Carter, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a New Edition of her Poems, Ed. Montagu Pennington, 2 vols. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1816). <Link to WWO><Same edition in Internet Archive>
Date of Entry
06/23/2011
