text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Whilst on the beach I stood, my courage fainted,
And busy thought a thousand horrors painted!
Stranger to each, and each to me was strange,
With none a kind 'Good-morrow' could exchange;
With pensive mind, whilst tears my cheeks bedewed,
Fierce Boreas, and a nymph immerged I viewed;
Langour and pain her timid looks express,
As by the women carried in to dress.
'Ah me!', I cried, 'to plunge into the main
Should I presume, this weak afflicted brain
Will grow deranged, and I shall die with pain!'
But some kind fair, impressed with sympathy,
Consoled my gries, and bade my sorrows flee;
Of whom, to practise what themselves had taught,
One plunged into the sea, with courage fraught;
Near thrice twice-told she dipped quite undismayed,
And then ascends to dress, nor asks for aid.
I chid my fears--my cowardice was nipped,
And next below the wave my head was dipped:
A strange sensation--in a second o'er,
And I quite braced, much happier than before;
When I bathe next, I'll have two dippings more.
(ll. 1-22, p. 377)
",2009-09-14 19:43:57 UTC,"Busy thought may paint ""a thousand horrors""",2003-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,"Treatment of headaches by ""dipping"" in the sea","",,"", •Fear and sensations are described. C18 medicine!
,Reading,15549,5828
"AH! why from me art thou for ever flown?
Why deaf to every agonising groan?
Not one short month for ten revolving years,
But pain within my frame its sceptre rears!
In each successive month full twelve long days
And tedious nights my sun withdraws his rays!
Leaves me in silent anguish on my bed,
Afflicting all the members in the head;
Through every particle the torture flies,
But centres in the temples, brain, and eyes;
The efforts of the hands and feet are vain,
While bows the head with agonising pain;
While heaves the breast th' unutterable sigh,
And the big tear drops from the languid eye.
For ah! my children want a mother's care,
A husband too should due assistance share;
Myself for action formed, would fain through life
Be found th' assiduous, valuable wife;
But now, behold, I live unfit for aught;
Inactive half my days except in thought,
And this so vague while torture clogs my hours,
I sigh, 'Oh, 'twill derange my mental powers,
Or but its dire excess dissolve my sight,
And thus entomb me in perpetual night!'
(ll. 1-24, p. 378)",2014-08-21 15:45:27 UTC,"""Not one short month for ten revolving years, / But pain within my frame its sceptre rears!""",2003-07-28 00:00:00 UTC,Excerpted in Lonsdale,"",,"", •More headaches (see previous). Clinical and figurative description of headache pain. ,Reading,15550,5829