work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3268,"","Searching ""conque"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-02-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Strength and Wisdom useless prove,
Once to see her is to Love;
Others in Time a heart may gain
By Treaty or Perswasion,
Their Conquests They by Siege obtain;
You o'er my heart were born to reign
And bravely took it by Invasion.",,8527,"•C-H takes from ""Poems from the Longleat MSS.""","""Others in Time a heart may gain / By Treaty or Perswasion, / Their Conquests They by Siege obtain.""","",2013-06-12 17:41:44 UTC,""
3268,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-02-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Strength and Wisdom useless prove,
Once to see her is to Love;
Others in Time a heart may gain
By Treaty or Perswasion,
Their Conquests They by Siege obtain;
You o'er my heart were born to reign
And bravely took it by Invasion.",,8528,•I've included twice: Invasion and rule of lover.,"""You o'er my heart were born to reign / And bravely took it by Invasion.""","",2013-06-12 17:43:09 UTC,""
3882,"","HDIS; Found again searching ""conque"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry) (2/6/2005)",2004-01-05 00:00:00 UTC,"On its own Worth True Majesty is rear'd,
And Virtue is her own Reward,
With solid Beams and Native Glory bright,
She neither Darkness dreads, nor covets Light;
True to Her self, and fix'd to inborn Laws,
Nor sunk by Spite, nor lifted by Applause,
She from her settl'd Orb looks calmly down,
On Life or Death a Prison or a Crown.
When bound in double Chains poor Belgia lay,
To foreign Arms, and inward Strife a Prey,
Whilst One Good Man buoy'd up Her sinking State,
And Virtue labour'd against Fate;
When Fortune basely with Ambition join'd,
And all was conquer'd but the Patriot's Mind;
When Storms let loose, and raging Seas
Just ready the torn Vessel to o'erwhelm,
Forc'd not the faithful Pilot from his Helm;
Nor all the Syren Songs of future Peace,
And dazling Prospect of a promis'd Crown,
Cou'd lure his stubborn Virtue down;
But against Charms, and Threats, and Hell, He stood,
To that which was severely good;
Then, had no Trophies justify'd his Fame,
No Poet bless'd his Song with Nassau's Name,
Virtue alone did all that Honour bring,
And Heav'n as plainly pointed out the King,
As when he at the Altar stood,
In all his Types and Robes of Powr,
Whilst at his Feet Religious Britain bow'd,
And own'd him next to what we there Adore.
(ll. 130-165, pp. 118-9)",,10054,•Republished 1714 and 1715.,"""And all was conquer'd but the Patriot's Mind.""",Empire,2013-07-22 15:02:09 UTC,""
3883,Mind's Eye,HDIS,2004-02-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Our anxious Pains We, all the Day,
In search of what We like, employ:
Scorning at Night the worthless Prey,
We find the Labour gave the Joy.
At Distance thro' an artful Glass
To the Mind 's Eye Things well appear:
They lose their Forms, and make a Mass
Confus'd and black, if brought too near.
If We see right, We see our Woes:
Then what avails it to have Eyes?
From Ignorance our Comfort flows:
The only Wretched are the Wise.
We wearied should lie down in Death:
This Cheat of Life would take no more;
If You thought Fame but empty Breath;
I, Phyllis but a perjur'd Whore.
(p. 109, ll. 25-40)
",,10055,"•What is the artful glass? (Related to man's Galatean ""Fancies and Notions"" which he woos like the Grecian artist? see ll. 5-9). I've included this stanza in the next entry.
•First published in The Gentleman's Journal, Feb. 1692, p. 5. Also in in Examen Poeticum, 1693, p. 431, and in A New Collection, 1701, p. 295. Collected 1707, 1709, 1718. REVISIT when thinking about how to treat multiple appearances in print.","""At Distance thro' an artful Glass / To the Mind's Eye Things well appear.""",Eye,2010-01-19 04:16:05 UTC,""
3883,"",HDIS (Poetry),2004-02-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Howe'er, 'tis well, that while Mankind
Thro Fate's perverse Meander errs,
He can Imagin'd Pleasures find,
To combat against Real Cares.
Fancies and Notions he pursues,
Which ne'er had Being but in Thought:
Each, like the Grecian Artist, woo's
The Image He himself has wrought.
(p. 108, ll. 1-8)
",,10056,"•Hard to phrase as proposition... Galatea is the allusion, of course. INTEREST.
•First published in The Gentleman's Journal, Feb. 1692, p. 5. Also in in Examen Poeticum, 1693, p. 431, and in A New Collection, 1701, p. 295. Collected 1707, 1709, 1718. REVISIT when thinking about how to treat multiple appearances in print.","""Fancies and Notions he pursues, / Which ne'er had Being but in Thought: / Each, like the Grecian Artist, woo's / The Image He himself has wrought.""","",2011-11-24 17:16:43 UTC,Opening stanzas
3954,"",Searching HDIS (Poetry),2004-02-25 00:00:00 UTC,"XXVII.
Where the white Towers and ancient Roofs did stand,
Remains of Wolsey's or great Henry's Hand,
To Age now yielding, or devour'd by Flame;
Let a young Phenix raise her tow'ring Head:
Her Wings with lengthen'd Honour let Her spread;
And by her Greatness show her Builder's Fame.
August and Open, as the Hero's Mind,
Be her capacious Courts design'd:
Let ev'ry Sacred Pillar bear
Trophies of Arms, and Monuments of War.
The King shall there in Parian Marble breath,
His Shoulder bleeding fresh: and at His Feet
Disarm'd shall lye the threat'ning Death:
(For so was saving Jove's Decree compleat.)
Behind, That Angel shall be plac'd, whose Shield
Sav'd Europe, in the Blow repell'd:
On the firm Basis, from his Oozy Bed
Boyn shall raise his Laurell'd Head;
And his Immortal Stream be known,
Artfully waving thro' the wounded Stone.
(p. 174, ll. 360-9)",2011-06-13,10281,"•Editors: ""P takes from Horace's Carmen Secularae little more than the title and general theme"" (p. 876).
•Variant gives ""Open, yet Solid, as the Builder's Mind"" for l. 366. ","""August and Open, as the Hero's Mind, / Be her capacious Courts design'd.""","",2011-06-16 20:04:02 UTC,""
3954,"","Found again searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-02-25 00:00:00 UTC,"XXXIX.
No longer shall their wretched Zeal adore
Ideas of destructive Power,
Spirits that hurt, and Godheads that devour:
New Incense They shall bring, new Altars raise,
And fill their Temples with a Stranger's Praise;
When the Great Father's Character They find
Visibly stampt upon the Hero's Mind;
And own a present Deity confest,
In Valour that preserv'd, and Power that bless'd.
(p. 179, ll. 503-511)
",,10282,"•Editors: ""P takes from Horace's Carmen Secularae little more than the title and general theme"" (p. 876).","The ""Great Father's Character"" may be found ""Visibly stampt upon the Hero's mind.""",Impressions,2011-06-16 20:06:41 UTC,""
6379,"",HDIS,2004-01-05 00:00:00 UTC,"'Tis true, I think not an impartial dole
Of Sense distributed to every Soul;
So that no Two, but can exactly say,
Each had his Measure, tho a diff'rent way:
Yet potent Nature frankly has bestow'd
Such various gifts amongst the mingl'd Crowd,
That I believe, the dullest of the kind,
Wou'd he but Husband and Manure his Mind,
Might find some Exce'llence there, which well-improv'd
At home might make him Pleas'd, in public Lov'd.
(ll. 16-25, pp. 57-8)",,16858,"First published in Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse. Ed. A. R. Waller. Cambridge: CUP, 1907. Prior sent the poem to Lord Dorset. Most likely written in summer of 1687.","""Yet potent Nature frankly has bestow'd / Such various gifts amongst the mingl'd Crowd, / That I believe, the dullest of the kind, / Wou'd he but Husband and Manure his Mind, / Might find some Exce'llence there, which well-improv'd / At home might make him Pleas'd, in public Lov'd.""","",2013-07-22 14:58:33 UTC,""
7150,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2012-01-09 00:12:21 UTC," Wn to my soul thou'st spoken peace
When from its bonds thou wilt my soul release
all my mourning then shall cease
then all my sorrow shall be turnd to Joy
& then thy mercyes onely shall my soul employ
Oh hear my god my saviour hear
& lett thy goodness towr'ds me soon appear
arm me wth heavn'ly temperd arms my Lord
Give for my buckler faith & for a sword thy word
Girt up my loins wth truth & on my breast
lett righteousness be plac't
thus thus I safely shall oppose
& safely triumph o're my foes
thus shall I break the force of hell & flee
With a glad heart to thee
to thee who (all my dangers past)
Wilt give thy self to me thy self & heav'n at last
theres the continuall treasury of bliss
the magazine of happiness
Pleasure there does never Cease
& in æternall Joy I shall remain
Where in æternall glory thou doest reign.
(p. 340, ll. 62-83)",,19406,"","""Wn to my soul thou'st spoken peace / When from its bonds thou wilt my soul release / all my mourning then shall cease.""",Fetters,2012-01-09 15:57:22 UTC,""
7682,"",Reading,2013-09-18 14:29:58 UTC,"Let either side abate of their Demands,
And both submit to Reason's high Commands,
For which way ere the Conquest shall encline,
The Loss Britannia will at last be thine.
(p. 165, ll. 349-352)",,22790,"","""Let either side abate of their Demands, / And both submit to Reason's high Commands, / For which way ere the Conquest shall encline, / The Loss Britannia will at last be thine.""","",2013-09-18 14:29:58 UTC,""