Date: 1700
"They cannot, no; each sigh Love's flight sustains, / O'er my own Heart in my own Breast he Reigns, / And holds too strong, my strugling Soul in Chains."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"At length from Love's vile Slave'ry I am free, / And have regain'd my Ancient Liberty: / I've shook the Chains off which my Bondage wrought, / Am free as Air, and unconfin'd as Thought."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)