"None can chain a mind / Whom this sweet chordage cannot bind."

— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printe for Robert Boulter
Date
1681
Metaphor
"None can chain a mind / Whom this sweet chordage cannot bind."
Metaphor in Context
PLEASURE
Hark how music then prepares
For thy stay these charming airs;
Which the posting winds recall,
And suspend the river's fall.

SOUL
Had I but any time to lose,
On this I would it all dispose.
Cease, tempter. None can chain a mind
Whom this sweet chordage cannot bind.

(ll. 37-44)
Provenance
Reading Norton Critical Edition of Seventeenth Century British Poetry, 1603-1660
Citation
Andrew Marvell, Miscellaneous Poems (1681). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
12/15/2006
Date of Review
05/26/2011

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.