"The tyrant passions tread fair meritt down / & their proud thrones erect above the crown"
— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Author
Work Title
Date
1702-1713, 1989
Metaphor
"The tyrant passions tread fair meritt down / & their proud thrones erect above the crown"
Metaphor in Context
These suffer deeper in a better part
& tho the legs unbound enslave the heart
their words when words are free in all beside
Or to their close or known designs are ty'd
Dependance is the common servile case
& the free-will a stranger to the place
the tyrant passions tread fair meritt down
& their proud thrones erect above the crown
their wretched captives many bonds secure
for love ambition avarice make ym sure
& tho the legs unbound enslave the heart
their words when words are free in all beside
Or to their close or known designs are ty'd
Dependance is the common servile case
& the free-will a stranger to the place
the tyrant passions tread fair meritt down
& their proud thrones erect above the crown
their wretched captives many bonds secure
for love ambition avarice make ym sure
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Parnell, Thomas. Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell. Eds. Claude Julien Rawson and F. P. Lock. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
07/27/2004
