Date: 1686, 1712
"When first my Soul put on its fleshly Load, / It was Imprison'd in the dark Abode; / My Feet were Fetters, my Hands Manacles, / My Sinews Chains, and all Confinement else; / My Bones the Bars of my loath'd Prison grate; / My Tongue the Turn-key, and my Mouth the Gate."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: June 28, 1693
"Beauties shine thro' the Work, adorn the whole, / Chain up the Sense, and captivate the Soul."
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: 1693
"From her blest Heart there flows a Line, / Which Nature made, and grapples mine. / Secret as that which tyes the Mind, / When to the Body 'tis confin'd"
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1703
"Man in himself a little World contains / A Soul not subject or to Bonds or Chains."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1707
"How sad our State by Nature is! / Our Sin how deep it stains! / And Satan binds our captive Minds / Fast in his slavish Chains."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)