text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Not thus had Isabel her love
Murmur'd to the laughing grove.
Strait to her chamber, yester-eve,
Had she retreated from the cave,
And, wildering in a maze of thought,
Fear'd every hour with danger fraught.
Nor could she from that maze escape,
Pursu'd by many a hideous shape;
When Jesse, fast as words could speak,
Told eager, how a fair young Greek,
A Palmer, and a reverend Friar
Had thither come in strange attire;
Said, she had seldom seen resort
To old Cotehele, from far or near,
A guest of such a noble port
As he who did the turban wear!
But little had poor Isabel
Heeded what flippant tongue would tell.
",2009-09-14 19:46:36 UTC,"""Strait to her chamber, yester-eve, / Had she retreated from the cave, / And, wildering in a maze of thought, / Fear'd every hour with danger fraught""",2006-01-18 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),16348,6176
"Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art
Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast.
Oh, say what happier rival wins thy heart?
Say, am I there no more a welcome guest?",2014-03-03 17:25:14 UTC,"""Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art / Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast.""",2006-03-13 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","•See also Persian Elegies. The poem appears there originally.Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),16364,6186
"Charles, with smile, not vain,
Nor quite unmix'd with pity and disdain,
Sat mute in wonder; but he sat not long
Without reflection:--Was Sir Owen wrong?
""So must I think; for can I judge it right
""To treat a lovely lady with despite?
""Because she play'd too roughly with the love
""Of a fond man whom she could not approve,
""And yet to vex him for the love he bore
""Is cause enough for his revenge, and more.
""But, thoughts, to council!--Do I wear a charm
""That will preserve my citadel from harm?
""Like the good knight, I have a heart that feels
""The wounds that beauty makes and kindness heals:
""Beauty she has, it seems, but is not kind--
""So found Sir Owen, and so I may find.
""Yet why, O heart of tinder, why afraid?
""Comes so much danger from so fair a maid?
""Wilt thou be made a voluntary prize
""To the fierce firing of two wicked eyes?
""Think her a foe, and on the danger rush,
""Nor let thy kindred for a coward blush.",2009-09-14 19:46:55 UTC,Thoughts may be called to council,2004-03-30 00:00:00 UTC,"",Soliloquy; ,,Inhabitants,"From Poetical Works (1838). Work out citation. REVISIT
•BIO: Crabbe was a poet and a Church of England Clergyman. Early difficulties getting into print. Asks Burke for patronage in 1781 (invoking Chatterton's suicide, suggests DNB). Burke guided revision of The Library. Publication success. Takes up a career in the church. Village (1783) shown to Johnson, who contributed lines 15-20 (sets up of Virgilian pastoral and poetic imagination). Borough (1810). Tales (1812). Crabbe's popularity waned with demise of heroic couplet and neoclassical tastes and with the prose (novelistic) replacements of the verse tale. ",HDIS. Searching for inner councils.,16456,6213
"""Much as I long'd to see the maid I loved,
""Through scenes so glorious I at leisure moved;
""For there are times when we do not obey
""The master-passion--when we yet delay--
""When absence, soon to end, we yet prolong,
""And dally with our wish although so strong.
",2009-09-14 19:46:55 UTC,The master-passion is not always obeyed,2004-06-01 00:00:00 UTC,"",Ruling passion,,"","","Searching HDIS for ""master passion""",16457,6213
"""This war within, these passions in their strife,
""If thus protracted, had exhausted life;
""But the strong view of these departed years
""Caused a full burst of salutary tears,
""And as I wept at large, and thought alone,
""I felt my reason re-ascend her throne.""
",2009-09-14 19:46:56 UTC,"Reason may ""re-ascend her throne"" after a burst of ""salutary tears""",2004-07-19 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","","Searching ""throne"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16458,6213
"""This war within, these passions in their strife,
""If thus protracted, had exhausted life;
""But the strong view of these departed years
""Caused a full burst of salutary tears,
""And as I wept at large, and thought alone,
""I felt my reason re-ascend her throne.""
",2009-09-14 19:46:56 UTC,"The ""war within, these passions in their strife, / If thus protracted, had exhausted life""",2004-07-19 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","",HDIS,16459,6213
"""Then spoke the spirit--George, I pray, attend--
""'First, let all doubts of thy religion end--
""'The word reveal'd is true: enquire no more,
""'Believe in meekness, and with thanks adore:
""'Thy priest attend, but not in all rely,
""'And to objectors seek for no reply:
""'Truth, doubt, and error, will be mix'd below--
""'Be thou content the greater truths to know,
""'And in obedience rest thee--For thy life
""'Thou needest counsel--now a happy wife,
""'A widow soon! and then, my sister, then
""'Think not of marriage, think no more of men;--
""'Life will have comforts; thou wilt much enjoy
""'Of moderate good, then do not this destroy;
""'Fear much, and wed no more; by passion led,
""'Shouldst thou again'--Art thou attending?--'wed,
""'Care in thy ways will growl, and anguish haunt thy bed:
""'A brother's warning on thy heart engrave:
""'Thou art a mistress--then be not a slave!
""'Shouldst thou again that hand in fondness give,
""'What life of misery art thou doom'd to live!
""'How wilt thou weep, lament, implore, complain!
""'How wilt thou meet derision and disdain!
""'And pray to Heaven in doubt, and kneel to man in vain!
""'Thou read'st of woes to tender bosoms sent--
""'Thine shall with tenfold agony be rent;
""'Increase of anguish shall new years bestow,
""'Pain shall on thought and grief on reason grow,
""'And this th' advice I give increase the ill I show.'
",2009-09-14 19:46:56 UTC,"""A brother's warning on thy heart engrave""",2005-03-08 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","","Searching ""heart"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16460,6213
"So many thought, and there is found a heart
To dwell upon the deaths on either part;
Since this their morals have been more correct,
The cruel spirit in the place is check'd;
His lordship holds not in such sacred care,
Nor takes such dreadful vengeance for a hare;
The smugglers fear, the poacher stands in awe
Of Heaven's own act, and reverence the law;
There was, there is, a terror in the place
That operates on man's offending race;
Such acts will stamp their moral on the soul,
And while the bad they threaten and control,
Will to the pious and the humble say,
Yours is the right, the safe, the certain way,
'T is wisdom to be good, 't is virtue to obey.",2009-09-14 19:46:56 UTC,"""Such acts will stamp their moral on the soul""",2005-04-08 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","","Searching ""soul"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16461,6213
"""Alas! how soon would doubts again invade
""The willing mind, and sins again persuade!
""I saw it--What?--I was awake, but how?
""Not as I am, or I should see it now:
""It spoke, I think,--I thought, at least it spoke,--
""And look'd alarming--yes, I felt the look.
""But then in sleep those horrid forms arise,
""That the soul sees,--and, we suppose, the eyes,--
""And the soul hears,--the senses then thrown by,
""She is herself the ear, herself the eye;
""A mistress so will free her servile race
""For their own tasks, and take herself the place:
""In sleep what forms will ductile fancy take,
""And what so common as to dream awake?
""On others thus do ghostly guests intrude?
""Or why am I by such advice pursued?
""One out of millions who exist, and why
""They know not--cannot know--and such am I;
""And shall two beings of two worlds, to meet,
""The laws of one, perhaps of both, defeat?
""It cannot be.--But if some being lives
""Who such kind warning to a favourite gives,
""Let him these doubts from my dull spirit clear,
""And once again, expected guest! appear.
",2009-09-14 19:46:56 UTC,"""'Alas! how soon would doubts again invade / 'The willing mind, and sins again persuade!""",2005-05-04 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Empire,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""invad"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16462,6213
"""Nay, think! the night he died--the very night!""--
""'T is very true, and so perchance he might,
""But in thy mind--not, lady, in thy sight!
""Thou wert not well; forms delicately made
""These dreams and fancies easily invade;
""The mind and body feel the slow disease,
""And dreams are what the troubled fancy sees.""--
""O! but how strange that all should be combined!""--
""True; but such combinations we may find;
""A dream's predicted number gain'd a prize,
""Yet dreams make no impression on the wise,
""Though some chance good, some lucky gain may rise.""--
",2009-09-14 19:46:56 UTC,"""'These dreams and fancies easily invade; / 'The mind and body feel the slow disease,""",2005-05-04 00:00:00 UTC,"",Dualism,,Empire,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""invad"" in HDIS (Poetry)",16463,6213