work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
6651,"",Reading,2010-01-04 20:36:25 UTC,"This Carcass breath'd, and walkt, and slept,
So that the World believ'd
There was a Soul the Motions kept;
But they were all deceiv'd.
For as a Watch by art is wound
To motion, such was mine:
But never had Orinda found
A Soul till she found thine;
Which now inspires, cures and supplies,
And guides my darkned Breast:
For thou art all that I can prize,
My Joy, my Life, my Rest.
(ll. 5-16)",,17613,"","""For as a Watch by art is wound / To motion, such was mine: / But never had Orinda found / A Soul till she found thine.""","",2010-01-04 20:36:25 UTC,""
6726,"",Reading,2010-06-21 17:44:48 UTC,"How vain a thing is Man, whose noblest part,
That Soul which through the World doth rome,
Traverses Heav'n, finds out the depth of Art,
Yet is so ignorant at home?
(ll. 1-4)",,17891,"","""How vain a thing is Man, whose noblest part, / That Soul which through the World doth rome, / Traverses Heav'n, finds out the depth of Art, / Yet is so ignorant at home?""","",2010-06-21 17:44:48 UTC,""
6726,"",Reading,2010-06-21 17:46:57 UTC,"In every Brook or Mirrour we can find
Reflections of our face to be;
But a true Optick to present our Mind
We hardly get, and darkly see.
(ll. 5-8)",,17892,Echoing Corinthians: we see in a glass darkly.,"""In every Brook or Mirrour we can find / Reflections of our face to be; / But a true Optick to present our Mind / We hardly get, and darkly see.""","",2010-06-21 17:46:57 UTC,""
6726,"",Reading,2010-06-21 17:49:53 UTC,"I wonder not to find those that know most,
Profess so much their Ignorance;
Since in their own Souls greatest Wits are lost,
And of themselves have scarce a glance.
(ll. 17-20)",,17893,"","""I wonder not to find those that know most, / Profess so much their Ignorance; / Since in their own Souls greatest Wits are lost, / And of themselves have scarce a glance.""","",2010-06-21 17:49:53 UTC,""
6726,"",Reading,2010-06-21 17:52:09 UTC,"A Soul self-mov'd which can dilate, contract,
Pierces and judges things unseen:
But this gross heap of Matter cannot act,
Unless impulsed from within.
(ll. 25-8)",,17894,"","""A Soul self-mov'd which can dilate, contract, / Pierces and judges things unseen: / But this gross heap of Matter cannot act, / Unless impulsed from within.""","",2010-06-21 17:52:41 UTC,""
6726,Innate Ideas,Reading,2010-06-21 17:54:57 UTC,"And though 'tis true she is imprison'd here,
Yet hath she Notions of her own,
Which Sense doth only jog, awake, and clear,
But cannot at the first make known.
(ll. 37-40)",,17895,"","""And though 'tis true she [the soul] is imprison'd here, / Yet hath she Notions of her own, / Which Sense doth only jog, awake, and clear, / But cannot at the first make known.""",Rooms,2010-06-21 17:54:57 UTC,""
6726,"",Reading,2010-06-21 17:57:40 UTC,"So unconcern'd she lives, so much above
The Rubbish of a sordid Jail,
That nothing doth her Energy improve
So much as when those structures fail,
(ll. 45-8)",,17896,"","""So unconcern'd she lives, so much above / The Rubbish of a sordid Jail, / That nothing doth her Energy improve / So much as when those structures fail.""",Rooms,2010-06-21 17:57:40 UTC,""
6726,"",Reading,2010-06-21 18:02:02 UTC,"It is our narrow thoughts shorten these things,
By their companion Flesh inclin'd;
Which feeling its own weakness gladly brings
The same opinion to the Mind.
(ll. 65-8)",,17897,Body and Soul are companions. Compare the competing metaphors in the poem in which the body is figured as a prison.,"""It is our narrow thoughts shorten these things, / By their companion Flesh inclin'd; / Which feeling its own weakness gladly brings / The same opinion to the Mind.""",Inhabitants,2010-06-21 18:02:02 UTC,""
6726,"",Reading,2010-06-21 18:03:58 UTC,"We stifle our own Sun, and live in Shade;
But where its beams do once appear,
They make that person of himself afraid,
And to his own acts most severe.
(ll. 69-72)",,17898,"","""We stifle our own Sun, and live in Shade; / But where its beams do once appear, / They make that person of himself afraid, / And to his own acts most severe.""","",2010-06-21 18:03:58 UTC,""
6726,"",Reading,2010-06-21 18:08:15 UTC,"He that commands himself is more a Prince
Then he who Nations keeps in awe;
Who yield to all that does their Souls convince,
Shall never need another Law.
(ll. 76-80)",,17899,"","""He that commands himself is more a Prince / Then he who Nations keeps in awe; / Who yield to all that does their Souls convince, / Shall never need another Law.""",Empire,2010-06-21 18:08:15 UTC,""