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THE Expostulation.
I.
1 HOw long, great God, a wretched captive here,
2 Must I these hated marks of bondage wear?
3 How long shall these uneasy chains controul
4 The willing flights of my impatient Soul?
[Page 13]5 How long shall her most pure intelligence
6 Be strain'd through an infectious screen of gross, corrupted sence?
II.
7 When shall I leave this darksome house of clay;
8 And to a brighter mansion wing away?
9 There's nothing here my thoughts to entertain,
10 But one Tyr'd revolution o're again:
11 The Sun and Stars observe their wonted round,
12 The streams their former courses keep: No Novelty is found.
III.
13 The same curst acts of false fruition o're,
14 The same wild hopes and wishes as before;
15 Do men for this so fondly life caress,
16 (That airy huss of splendid emptiness?)
17 Unthinking sots: kind Heaven let me be gone,
18 I'm tyr'd, I'm sick of this dull Farce's repetition.
About this text
Author: Elizabeth Rowe (née Singer)
Themes:
vanity of life
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Source edition
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737. Poems on several occasions. Written by Philomela. London: Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street, 1696, pp. 12-13. [24],72,69,[11]p.; 8⁰ (ESTC R7317; OTA A57734)
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Other works by Elizabeth Rowe (née Singer)
- And, though after my Skin, Worms destroy this Body, yet in my Flesh shall I see God, Job 19. 26. ()
- The ATHENIANS ()
- The Athenians Answer, to the Foregoing Poem. ()
- The Athenians Answer. ()
- The Athenians Answer. ()
- The Athenians Answer. ()
- By Dispair. ()
- THE FABLE of PHAETON Paraphrased From OVID's METAMORPHOSIS. ()
- A Farewel to LOVE. ()
- THE Female Passion, ()
- THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH: A POEM ()
- HUMANE LOVE: ()
- LOVE and FRIENDSHIP: A PASTORAL. ()
- On Mrs. Rebecka. ()
- PARAPHRASE ()
- Paraphrase on Cant. 5. 6. &c. ()
- Paraphrase on Canticles, 7. 11. ()
- Paraphrase on Malachy 3. 14. ()
- Paraphrase on Micha. 6. 6, 7. ()
- Paraphrase on Revel. chap. 1. from v. 13. to v. 18. ()
- A Paraphrase on the CANTICLES. ()
- Parthenea, an ELEGY. ()
- A Pastoral Elegy. ()
- A Pastoral on the QUEEN. ()
- A PASTORAL. ()
- Pharaphrase on John 21. 17. ()
- A Pindarick POEM on HABBAKUK. ()
- A Pindarick, to the Athenian Society. ()
- Platonick Love. ()
- A POEM Occasioned by the report of the Queens Death. ()
- A Poetical Question concerning the Jacobites, sent to the Athenians. ()
- The RAPTURE. ()
- The Reflection. ()
- The Reply to Mr. — ()
- A SONG. ()
- Thoughts on Death. ()
- To a very Young Gentleman at a Dancing-School. ()
- TO CELINDA. ()
- To Madam S— at the Court. ()
- To Mr. — — on his POEM. ()
- TO Mrs. MARY FRIEND; Knowing her but by Report. ()
- To my Lady CARTERET. ()
- To one that perswades me to leave the Muses. ()
- TO ORESTES. ()
- TO Sir CHAREES SEDLEY. ()
- TO STREPHON. ()
- To the Honourable Mrs. E— Stretchy. ()
- To the same Gentleman. ()
- Upon King William's passing the Boyn, &c. ()
- The Vanity of the World, In a Poem to the Athenians. ()
- Verses written by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, on her drawing the Lord Boyle's Picture. ()
- The Vision. To Theron. ()
- THE WISH, IN A POEM TO THE ATHENIANS. ()