Date: 1667
"Too promising, too great a mind/ In so small room to be confin'd"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"By giving thy Soul room to move: / Affording scene unto that mind, / Which is too great to be confin'd. [...]Thou mightst retire, but who e're meant / A Palace for a Tenement"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"And as in Palaces the outmost, worst / Rooms entertain our wonder at the first; / But once within the Presence-Chamber door, / We do despise what e're we saw before: / So when you with her Mind acquaintance get, / You'l hardly think upon the Cabinet."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"Thy Heart locks up my Secrets richly set, / And my Breast is thy private Cabinet."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"And yet those Souls, when first they met, / Lookt out at windows through the Eyes."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"And though 'tis true she [the soul] is imprison'd here, / Yet hath she Notions of her own, / Which Sense doth only jog, awake, and clear, / But cannot at the first make known."
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Date: 1667
"So unconcern'd she lives, so much above / The Rubbish of a sordid Jail, / That nothing doth her Energy improve / So much as when those structures fail."
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Date: 1684
"In proper Cells her large capacious Brain / The images of all things does contain, / As bright almost as were th'Ideas laid, / In the last model e'er the World was made."
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