work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6002,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""fancy""",2005-05-17 00:00:00 UTC,"I mark thy muse; her gothic lyre
Well suits the legendary lay;
While darting from her eyes of sire
She beams a visionary day:
Bright as the magic torch she early gave
To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave.",2011-06-05,15958,"","The muse ""beams a visionary day: / Bright as the magic torch she early gave / To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave.""",Impressions,2011-06-06 03:31:47 UTC,""
6158,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2006-01-18 00:00:00 UTC,"Thy own Maria's manners-painting page,
That bids thy portrait every heart engage,
At will that bids us smile, regret, and weep,
Shall rouse thy genius from its leaden sleep.
Thy children, sunk in baleful sloth no more,
Shall till the willing soil, and ply the oar,
And Industry, with hard, yet liberal hand,
Shall scatter countless blessings o'er the land.
No more thy nobles, indigent and vain,
Shall lead to Britain's shores a cumbrous train,
And change for heartless Fashion's gilded toys,
Their home-bred dignity, and home-felt joys;
In her clear mirror while they see reveal'd
What Folly bred, and Prejudice conceal'd;
Pride's frozen forms, and Ostentation's glare,
The outward splendour, and the inward care.
Proceed, fair Moralist! thy isle to guard,
And may success thy generous toils reward;
Her peasants thus to ancient rights restored,
No more shall languish for their absent lord,
No more Oppression's iron grasp deplore,
And lend rash aid to foreign foes no more:
Then shall Instruction, from her useful page,
By fair example youthful minds engage;
Her steady lamp shall pour its guiding ray,
And shed on lowliest minds celestial day.
Then, like the Fair our moral poet drew,
The cultured native mind shall hold to view
Fixed principle and fancy ever new.",,16248,"","""Her steady lamp shall pour its guiding ray, / And shed on lowliest minds celestial day.""","",2009-09-14 19:46:10 UTC,""
6158,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""lamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2006-01-18 00:00:00 UTC,"If aught the horrors of such views can sooth,
When Death reveals his bright associate Truth,
(Whose rays the new-departed soul illume,
Like those eternal lamps that light the tomb,)
The lessons in Adversity's dark school,
That fond presumption's headlong fervour cool;
The heart-struck agony, the deep distress,
That impious pride and daring thoughts repress;
The manly truth that spurns at vain pretence,
The pious awe that trembles at offence;
Attention deep, which weightier themes engage,
These symptoms of a new and better age,
Which still progressive, though unfolding slow,
Strike deep their roots, where tears were wont to flow,
And, like the cypress, rear th' unfading head
Among the mournful dwellings of the dead;--
These can, where hope survives, impart a balm,
And Memory's hoard of secret anguish calm.
The nations by affliction taught and blest,
No longer dazzled, blinded, and opprest,
Shall break at once through custom's wonted ties,
And nobly bold in mental freedom rise.
Their native language, and their country's cause,
Shall guide their way to honour and applause;
Their taste in servile chains no more confined,
Shall move as freely as the liberal wind;
From each enlighten'd nation chuse the best,
Yet scorn a whole in foreign graces drest;
To all acquirements give their native tone,
And form a taste peculiarly their own.",,16249,•I've included twice: Lamp and Ray,"""Death reveals his bright associate Truth,/ (Whose rays the new-departed soul illume, / Like those eternal lamps that light the tomb,)""","",2009-09-14 19:46:10 UTC,""