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)
Date: 1709
"Bring down the Piece,Urania, from Above, / And let my HONOUR and my LOVE / Dress it with Chains of Gold to hang upon my Heart."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709
"I know the Kindred-Mind. 'Tis she, 'tis she; / Among the Heav'nly Forms I see / The Kindred-Mind from fleshly Bondage free."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709
"'But oh the crowds of wretched souls / 'Fetter'd to minds of different moulds, / 'And chain'd t'eternal strife!'"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1712
"She [the soul] does her Godlike Liberty secure: / Her Right and high Prerogative maintains, / Impatient of the Yoke, and scorns coercive Chains."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1713
"An equal Partner in the vanquish'd Earth, / A Brother, not impos'd upon my Birth, / Too weak a Tye unequal Thoughts to bind, / But by the gen'rous Motions of the Mind."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: w. 1702-1713
"Loos'd from ye chains of flesh his freer mind / Rose up to sacred love, / To perfect saint or seraphim refin'd, / Quitting his lump of clay, / As subtle spirits fume away / Loos'd from their earth they upward mount, they flye, / They light, they shine, & blaze along the skye."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Love in these Labyrinths his Slaves detains, / And mighty Hearts are held in slender Chains."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: w. before 1717? (first published 1989)
"But he who servily can wish or grieve / For that which is not in his powr to give / Casts off the firmness wch shoud make him great / the strongest shield we can oppose to fate / letts inclinations grow & thus he weaves / Those very bonds which keep us passions slaves."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1718
"Reluctant Reason you'll in Fetters keep, / And lay th' insulting Judge within asleep."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)