"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: / Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, / As they draw near to their eternal home"
— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Henry Herringman
Date
1685
Metaphor
"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: / Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, / As they draw near to their eternal home"
Metaphor in Context
When we for age could neither read nor write,
The subject made us able to indite.
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made:
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home.
The subject made us able to indite.
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made:
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Categories
Provenance
Found searching "mind" at Electronic Text Center at UVA Library
Citation
Divine Poems. By Edmond Waller Esq; Licensed, Octob. 3. 1685. Rob. Midgley. (London: In the Savoy: Printed for Henry Herringman; and are to be sold by Jos. Knight and Fran. Saunders, at the sign of the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New-Exchange in the Strand, 1685). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
08/11/2005
