Here let a captive fetch a panting groan

DMI number:

22933

Poem Aliases

Spectator no. 11.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Here let a captive fetch a panting groan

Last Line:

And bid the world with all its joys adieu

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet, Narrative verse, and Epistle

Themes:

Commerce, Liberty, Love, and Slavery

Content/Publication

Title:

Poems written occasionally by the late John Winstanley...interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [vol II] [N21265] [ecco]

Page No(s):

pp.8-16

Poem Title:

Yarico's Epistle to Inkle. A Poem. Occasioned by reading Spectator, Vol 1. No. 11.

Attribution:

Dr. Winstanley's Poems.

Attributed To:

John Winstanley