"Why break'st thou not (my Soul) this Chain / Of Flesh? why lett'st thou that restrain / Thy nimble Flight into his Arms, / Whose only Look with gladness charms?"
— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring
Date
1651
Metaphor
"Why break'st thou not (my Soul) this Chain / Of Flesh? why lett'st thou that restrain / Thy nimble Flight into his Arms, / Whose only Look with gladness charms?"
Metaphor in Context
Why break'st thou not (my Soul) this Chain
Of Flesh? why lett'st thou that restrain
Thy nimble Flight into his Arms,
Whose only Look with gladness charms?
But (alas!) in vain I speak to thee
Poor Soul! already fled from Me;
To seek out him in whose lov'd Brest,
Thy Life, as mine in thee, doth rest.
(p. 165)
Of Flesh? why lett'st thou that restrain
Thy nimble Flight into his Arms,
Whose only Look with gladness charms?
But (alas!) in vain I speak to thee
Poor Soul! already fled from Me;
To seek out him in whose lov'd Brest,
Thy Life, as mine in thee, doth rest.
(p. 165)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "chain" and "soul" in HDIS (Poetry)
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
01/12/2012
