"Wn to my soul thou'st spoken peace / When from its bonds thou wilt my soul release / all my mourning then shall cease."

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)


Date
w. 1694-1698, 1989
Metaphor
"Wn to my soul thou'st spoken peace / When from its bonds thou wilt my soul release / all my mourning then shall cease."
Metaphor in Context
    Wn to my soul thou'st spoken peace
  When from its bonds thou wilt my soul release
    all my mourning then shall cease

  then all my sorrow shall be turnd to Joy
& then thy mercyes onely shall my soul employ
       Oh hear my god my saviour hear
  & lett thy goodness towr'ds me soon appear
  arm me wth heavn'ly temperd arms my Lord
Give for my buckler faith & for a sword thy word
  Girt up my loins wth truth & on my breast
       lett righteousness be plac't
    thus thus I safely shall oppose
    & safely triumph o're my foes
  thus shall I break the force of hell & flee
    With a glad heart to thee
    to thee who (all my dangers past)
Wilt give thy self to me thy self & heav'n at last
  theres the continuall treasury of bliss
    the magazine of happiness
    Pleasure there does never Cease
  & in æternall Joy I shall remain
  Where in æternall glory thou doest reign.
(p. 340, ll. 62-83)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "bond" and "soul" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Thomas Parnell, Collected poems of Thomas Parnell, ed. Claude Rawson and F. P. Lock (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1989).
Date of Entry
01/09/2012

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.