"'Tis but the Body that blind Fortunes spight / Can chain to Earth; the nobler Soul doth slight / Her servill Bonds, and takes to Heaven her flight."
— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring
Date
1651
Metaphor
"'Tis but the Body that blind Fortunes spight / Can chain to Earth; the nobler Soul doth slight / Her servill Bonds, and takes to Heaven her flight."
Metaphor in Context
'Tis but the Body that blind Fortunes spight
Can chain to Earth; the nobler Soul doth slight
Her servill Bonds, and takes to Heaven her flight.
Can chain to Earth; the nobler Soul doth slight
Her servill Bonds, and takes to Heaven her flight.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "bond" and "soul" in HDIS (Poetry)' found again, "chain"
Citation
Sir Edward Sherburne, Poems and Translations Amorous, Lusory, Morall, Divine (London: Printed by W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring, 1651). <Link to EEBO>
See also Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, The Rape of Helen, a Comment Thereon, With Several Other Poems and Translations (London: Printed by W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring, 1651).
See also Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, The Rape of Helen, a Comment Thereon, With Several Other Poems and Translations (London: Printed by W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring, 1651).
Date of Entry
01/06/2012
