Date: 1661
"These are but objects at a distance, these / Are but refreshments, and to give you ease, / To make thy Way the sweeter, till thou art / Hid in the Closet of Sophia's Heart."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this attracting Face our Pilgrim throws / His eyes, his Soul thorow those windows goes"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
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."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
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."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1675
"They were i'th' dark, their heart was a dark room, / Till saving grace from God did thither come."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)