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In "A Rapture," the speaker tries to convince his lover, Celia, to sleep with him. He tells her to forget "Honor, that keeps cowards out." The speaker argues that chastity is not God's law, but the law of men in power who in turn "empale free woman."
The poem has many metaphors and euphemisms for the sexual act. In fact, line 55-78 uses bee and flower imagery. The speaker of the poem then tells his lover that no one will know or be able to tell on them so that she does not need to fear dishonor. He also tells her that they don't need to steal away in the middle of the night either.
The speaker alludes to chaste women from antiquity: Lucrece, Penelope, Daphne, and Laura. He explains to his lover that they and many other women now indulge in love that they missed while on earth due to "the tyrant," Honor.
Then, he tells Celia that Honor, the "false impostor," would make him fight a duel and kill the man that dishonored him or her. However, religion says that murder is wrong. Therefore, Honor does not have power to keep lovers from enjoying each other.
The poem also uses the techniques by John Donne of using physical love as the expression of spiritual love, "And so our souls that cannot be embraced/ Shall the embraces of our bodies taste" (lines 43-44). Since Carew admired Donne's work, it is not a hard reach to make a case that using physical love as the expression of spiritual love was inspired by Donne.
For further comparison to others, read John Donne's "The Ecstasy" and "Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed" and Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander."
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