Date: 1681
"A soul hung up as 'twere, in Chains / Of Nerves, and Arteries, and Veins."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1681
"O who shall me deliver whole, / From bonds of this Tyrannic Soul?"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1687
"And Monarch's can depose, or can create: / With secret Chains their Subjects Conscience binds, / And lays inchanted Fetters on their Minds."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
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: 1691
"Grace doth our Souls to God unite, / Like glorious Golden Chains."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"By Law and Inclination doubly joyn'd, / Both acted by one Sympathetick Mind. / Whom Wedlock's Silken Chains as softly tye, / As that which when asunder snapt, we dye, / Which makes the Soul and Body's wondrous harmony."
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1691
"Here wisely-flowing Eloquence disdains / To be confin'd, but in Poetick Chains: / Sweet are the Bonds, that tye the Soul to Sense / And scope allow for All things, but Offence!"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1693
"Let Thirst of Glory meaner Souls inspire, / And haunt their Dreams! these, nobler Things desire; / Nor envy such as Bodies only bind, / While they in Truth's soft Chains secure the Mind."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1697
"Amazing Power of Guilt! one great Offence / Benumbs the Mind, and stupifys the Sense, / Binds fast reluctant Conscience with its Charms, / And of its Sting the Worm within disarms."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Her charms unbind / The chains of love, or fix them on the mind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)