{"id":1638,"date":"2019-04-30T00:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T00:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2019-05-04T02:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T02:16:26","slug":"similizing-birds-to-a-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Similizing Birds to a Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<span id='easy-footnote-1-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1638' title='Similizing Birds to a Ship] Nature\u2019&lt;em&gt;s&lt;\/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Ships. &lt;\/em&gt;1664; Nature\u2019s &lt;em&gt;Ships&lt;\/em&gt;. 1668. The title in 1664 and 1668 is similar to a marginal note in Cavendish\u2019s 1653 text, which reads, \u201cNature\u2019s Ship.\u201d '><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\n<p>Birds from the cedars tall do<span id='easy-footnote-2-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-2-1638' title='do] which 1653 '><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> take a flight<br \/>\nOn stretch\u00e8d wings, to bear their bodies light.<br \/>\nAs ships do sail over the ocean wide,<br \/>\nSo birds do<span id='easy-footnote-3-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-3-1638' title='birds do] do they 1664, 1668 '><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> sail, and through the air do<span id='easy-footnote-4-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-4-1638' title='air do] &lt;em&gt;Aire&lt;\/em&gt; 1653 '><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> glide.<br \/>\nTheir bodies are<span id='easy-footnote-5-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-5-1638' title='are] as 1653 '><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> the keel; feet, cable rope;<span id='easy-footnote-6-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-6-1638' title='cable rope;] Cabl\u2019and Rope, 1664; &lt;em&gt;Cabl&lt;\/em&gt;\u2019, and &lt;em&gt;Rope&lt;\/em&gt;; 1668 '><sup>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5<br \/>\nThe head, the steersman<span id='easy-footnote-7-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-7-1638' title='steersman] &lt;em&gt;Steer-man&lt;\/em&gt; is, 1653 '><sup>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> which doth guide the poop.<br \/>\nTheir wings, as sails, with wind are stretched out wide,<br \/>\nBut hard it is<span id='easy-footnote-8-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-8-1638' title='hard it is] it is hard 1664, 1668 '><sup>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> to fly against the tide.<br \/>\nFor when the clouds do flow<span id='easy-footnote-9-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-9-1638' title='A marginal note in Cavendish\u2019s 1653 text reads: \u201cIn the air clouds move, or wave as water in the sea, and ebb and flow according to dry or moist weather.\u201d In 1664 and 1668, the note reads, \u201cClouds in the air do move as water doth in the sea, and flow and ebb according to dry and moist weather.\u201d '><sup>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> against their breast,<br \/>\nThey<span id='easy-footnote-10-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-10-1638' title='They] Soon 1653 '><sup>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> weary grow, and on a bough<span id='easy-footnote-11-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-11-1638' title='A marginal note in Cavendish\u2019s 1653 and 1664 texts reads: \u201cA bough is their haven.\u201d '><sup>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span> do<span id='easy-footnote-12-1638' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638#easy-footnote-bottom-12-1638' title='do] they 1653 '><sup>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> rest.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds from the cedars tall do take a flight On stretch\u00e8d wings, to bear their bodies light. As ships do sail over the ocean wide, So birds do sail, and through the air do glide. Their bodies are the keel; feet, cable rope;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 The head, the steersman which doth guide the poop. Their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Similizing Birds to a Ship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancies","category-part3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}