text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Soul of my Soul, my joy, my crown, my Friend,
A name which all the rest doth comprehend;
How happy are we now, whose Souls are grown
By an incomparable mixture one:
Whose well-acquainted Minds are now as near
As Love, or Vows, or Friendship can endear?
I have no thought but what's to thee reveal'd,
Nor thou desire that is from me conceal'd.
Thy Heart locks up my Secrets richly set,
And my Breast is thy private Cabinet.
Thou shed'st no tear but what my moisture lent,
And if I sigh, it is thy breath is spent.
United thus, what Horrour can appear
Worthy our Sorrow, Anger, or our Fear?
Let the dull World alone to talk and fight,
And with their vast Ambitions Nature fright;
Let them despise so Innocent a flame,
While Envy, Pride and Faction play their game:
But we by Love sublim'd so high shall rise,
To pity Kings, and Conquerours despise,
Since we that Sacred Union have engrost
Which they and all the factious World have lost.",2009-09-14 19:34:16 UTC,"""Thy Heart locks up my Secrets richly set, / And my Breast is thy private Cabinet.""",2005-09-07 00:00:00 UTC,I've included entire poem,"",,"","","Searching ""breast"" and ""cabinet"" in HDIS (Poetry)",9516,3668
" Then, my Lucasia, we who have
Whatever Love can give or crave;
Who can with pitying scorn survey
The Trifles which the most betray;
With innocence and perfect friendship fir'd
By Vertue joyn'd, and by our Choice retir'd.
Whose Mirrours are the crystal Brooks,
Or else each others Hearts and Looks;
Who cannot wish for other things
Then Privacy and Friendship brings:
Whose thoughts and persons chang'd and mixt are one,
Enjoy Content, or else the World hath none",2013-08-21 13:55:54 UTC,"""Whose Mirrours are the crystal Brooks, / Or else each others Hearts and Looks.""",2005-11-30 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Mirror,Final Two Stanzas,"Searching ""heart"" and ""mirrour"" (""mirror"") in HDIS (Poetry)",9517,3669
"Luc.
Say, my Orinda, why so sad?
Orin.
Absence from thee doth tear my heart;
Which, since with thine it union had,
Each parting splits.
Luc.
And can we part?
Orin.
Our Bodies must.
Luc.
But never we:
Our Souls, without the help of Sense,
By wayes more noble and more free
Can meet, and hold intelligence.
Orin.
And yet those Souls, when first they met,
Lookt out at windows through the Eyes.
Luc.
But soon did such acquaintance get,
Not Fate nor Time can them surprize.
Orin.
Absence will rob us of that bliss
To which this Friendship title brings:
Love's fruits and joys are made by this
Useless as Crowns to captiv'd Kings.
Luc.
Friendship's a Science, and we know
There Contemplation's most employ'd.
Orin.
Religion's so, but practick too,
And both by niceties destroy'd.
Luc.
But who ne're parts can never meet,
And so that happiness were lost.
Orin.
Thus Pain and Death are sadly sweet,
Since Health and Heav'n such price much cost.",2009-09-14 19:34:16 UTC,"""And yet those Souls, when first they met, / Lookt out at windows through the Eyes.""",2006-01-25 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Rooms,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""window"" in HDIS (Poetry)",9518,3670
"For, though Man's Soul, and Body are not onely one natural Engine (as some have thought) of whose motions of all sorts, there may be as certain an accompt given, as those of a Watch or a Clock: yet by long studying of the Spirits, of the Bloud, of the Nourishment, of the parts ... there, without question, be very neer ghesses made, even at the more exalted, and immediate Actions of the Soul; and that too, without destroying its Spiritual and Immortal Being.
(pp. 82-3)",2009-09-14 19:34:17 UTC,"""For, though Man's Soul, and Body are not onely one natural Engine (as some have thought) of whose motions of all sorts, there may be as certain an accompt given, as those of a Watch or a Clock""",2006-12-13 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","•I've included thrice: Engine, Watch, Clock","Reading Samuel L. Macey's Clocks and the Cosmos: Time in Western Life and Thought. Archon Books: Hamden, CT, 1980. p. 83.",9529,3672
"
The not observing this rule is that which the world has blamed in our satyrist, Cleveland: to express a thing hard and unnaturally, is his new way of elocution. 'Tis true, no poet but may sometimes use a catachresis: Virgil does it--
Mistaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho--""in his eclogue of Pollio; and in his seventh
mirantur et undae, ----Miratur nemus insuetum fulgentia longe ?Scuta virum fluvio pictasque innare carinas.
And Ovid once so modestly, that he asks leave to do it:
----quern, si verbo audacia detur, Hand metuam summi dixisse Palatia cali.
calling the court of Jupiter by the name of Augustus his palace; though in another place he is more bold, where he says,--et longas visent Capitolia pampas. But to do this always, and never be able to write a line without it, though it may be admired by some few pedants, will not pass upon those who know that wit is best conveyed to us in the most easy language; and is most to be admired when a great thought comes dressed in words so commonly received, that it is understood by the meanest apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested: but we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow: he gives us many times a hard nut to break our teeth, without a kernel for our pains. So that there is this difference betwixt his Satires and doctor Donne's; that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence; the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words: 'tis true, in some places his wit is independent of his words, as in that of the rebel Scot:
Had Cain been Scot, God would have chang'd his doom; Not forc'd him wander, but confin'd him home.
",2009-09-14 19:49:34 UTC,"""But to do this always, and never be able to write a line without it, though it may be admired by some few pedants, will not pass upon those who know that wit is best conveyed to us in the most easy language; and is most to be admired when a great thought comes dressed in words so commonly received, that it is understood by the meanest apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested.""",2009-02-14 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Dress,I've included twice: Dress and Meat,Reading,17246,6481 "This Carcass breath'd, and walkt, and slept,