work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5976,"",HDIS,2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC," ""Ah cease!"" he cried, ""fond Nymph! the heart t'upbraid,
""Which thy fair image too distinctly bears:
""The cloud, which darkly o'er my fancy play'd,
""Whate'er th' illusion may have caus'd, now clears,
""And, tho' with range uncertain, doubts and fears
""Contend for empire and distract my mind.
""Ah! look not so! drop not those pearly tears
""Hide those perfections, lest, to duty blind,
'Again my working soul to madness be resign'd!'
",,15889,"","The heart may bear a ""fair image""","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
5976,"",Searching HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC," ""But thee nor toils nor adverse fate alarm:
""Thy gallant heart, where constancy presides,
""Which innate worth and gen'rous feelings warm,
""Mocks at extrinsic chance and fear derides.
""Tho' threat'ning oceans heave their boist'rous tides,
""Tho' light'nings glare, and thunders round thee roll,
""Protecting Heav'n my wand'ring hero guides,
""Inspires new courage fortune to controul,
""Braces each nerve, and stamps with energy his soul.
",,15896,"","Heaven ""Braces each nerve, and stamps with energy his soul""","",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,""
5976,"",Searching HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC," ""Stampt on my soul, and with my life combin'd,
""Is the remembrance of my much-lov'd King;
""And dear the hours which to my grateful mind
""The splendid image of his virtues bring.
""From this pure source of knightly prowess spring
""All that of promise grac'd my rude essays.
""Thus when the Eaglet tries his feeble wing,
""Led by his princely sire, he learns to raise
""Towards Heaven his ardent glance, and on the sun to gaze.
",,15897,"","""Stampt on my soul, and with my life combin'd, / Is the remembrance of my much-lov'd King""","",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,""
6083,"","Searching ""faction"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-24 00:00:00 UTC," Thus with the show of reason, but with hearts,
By faction tainted, and by envy steel'd
Against their youthful leader, they had hop'd
By these inglorious councils to degrade
And tarnish his high fame; for Dathan there,
And, him beside, Abiram in the roll
Of Reuben's princes held their state, and sate
Darkling in close cabal; but vain their plots
And impotent their malice; calm contempt,
Disdaining answer, mark'd the hero's brow,
And when Elishama, whose fiery zeal
Ill brook'd their chilling argument, arose
Impatient to reply, with outstretcht hand
Imposing silence, thus the chieftain spake.
",,16096,"","""Thus with the show of reason, but with hearts, / By faction tainted, and by envy steel'd / Against their youthful leader, they had hop'd / By these inglorious councils to degrade / And tarnish his high fame.""","",2012-01-06 21:49:49 UTC,""
6083,"","Searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC," ""Since, then, th' Eternal Pow'r has stamp'd each mind,
""Pure and congenial, in one common mould,
""Henceforward may your virtues be combin'd!
""Oh! let your spirits, free and uncontroul'd,
""Their kindred gallantry and worth unfold:
""Let both obey approving Heav'n's behest!
""Angels and men with transport shall behold
""Your hands the ravages of war arrest,
""And peace again shall smile, and Judah shall be bless'd!""
",,16097,"","""Since, then, th' Eternal Pow'r has stamp'd each mind, / Pure and congenial, in one common mould""","",2009-09-14 19:45:43 UTC,""
6083,"","Searching ""stamp"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC," ""Oh! that high Heav'n, in mercy to mankind,
""War and its deadly scourges had restrain'd!
""Oh! had it stamp'd upon the human mind
""The mild forbearance, and the love unfeign'd,
""By which alone man's blessings are sustain'd,
""And conscience loses her severest stings!
""Then brother ne'er a brother's blood had drain'd,
""Ne'er had we known the dire effect, which springs
""From nations' rivalry and jealous hate of kings!""
",,16098,"","""Oh! had [Heaven] stamp'd upon the human mind / The mild forbearance, and the love unfeign'd""","",2009-09-14 19:45:44 UTC,""
6083,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2006-01-17 00:00:00 UTC,"He said, and forth the brave advent'rers went.
Deep in their gloomy cave the ten remain'd,
Hungry and chill and overcome with toil,
Yet fear forbad their heavy eyes to close,
And none propos'd to watch whilst others slept;
For by no ties of friendship were they bound
Each to the other, nor had common cause,
Save in the joint resolve to throw contempt
And absolute discredit on the hope,
Cherish'd by Joshua, to excite the war
With nations, which invincible they deem'd.
The shepherd's words weigh'd heavy on their hearts,
And what that false deceiver would have said,
Had Joshua not oppos'd, their fears supplied.
Some in the baseness of their souls propos'd
Instant escape; but even that t'attempt
Presented perils, which they dar'd not face,
But under guidance of their gallant chiefs;
For though they held them in their bitt'rest hate,
Still they rever'd their courage. Some there were
In treason so deep-sighted, as to spy
A project to desert them in their need,
And let them die by famine in their cave:
So minds debas'd can torture gen'rous acts:
And thus, by terrors haunted, hunger-pinch'd,
Hag-ridden by the demon at their hearts,
Suspicious, tost from thought to thought, they watch'd
The lagging hours of night, nor other food
Had they, save that, on which the viper feeds.",,16101,"•I've included thrice: Haunting, Demon, Wave","""So minds debas'd can torture gen'rous acts: / And thus, by terrors haunted, hunger-pinch'd, / Hag-ridden by the demon at their hearts, / Suspicious, tost from thought to thought, they watch'd / The lagging hours of night""","",2009-09-14 19:45:44 UTC,""
6177,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"""As thus I spoke, encrimson'd blushes dy'd
""Her cheek, her bosom--Fault'ring she replied,
""'Rise, royal Sir--nay, spare me, I implore--
""'I cannot answer--may not hear thee more--
""'Some other time perhaps'--'Oh! why not now,'
""I cried, 'thy Orosmanes' suit allow?
""'Since of thy charms the vassal I became,
""'Pure was my love, and holy was my flame,
""'Pure as thy peerless self! My realm I left,
""'Thy humblest slave I grew, of all bereft,
""'Save only of my honour and my truth;
""'Doom'd in obscurity to pass my youth,
""'Studious 'bove all that secret to conceal,
""'Which jealous honour made me now reveal.
""'This was love's doing: from my constant heart
""'The image stampt by him can ne'er depart.",,16357,"","""This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart""","",2009-09-14 19:46:38 UTC,""
6196,"","",2004-07-09 00:00:00 UTC,"But her example shall survive
While Granny Woodbine's doom'd to live;
Yes, her example shall inspire
My teaching of the Little 'Squire;
And, 'spite of all his humour'd tricks,
I trust, in Heaven, that I shall fix
In his young mind th'unerring rules,
Not always taught in higher schools,
That certain sense of right and wrong,
Which kneaded in a mind so young,
With all the Hopes Religion gives,
And Fears which thence the heart receives:
Hopes that enchant the early view,
But while they please, exalt it too;
And Fears call'd forth, whene'er we err,
Not to affright but to deter,--
Such hopes, such fears when once combin'd
With the first feelings of the mind;
Though by the gales of passion tost,
Though, for a time, o'erwhelm'd and lost;
Or laid asleep amid the strife,
And opiate Joys of sensual Life;
When Reason doth regain its throne,
And the mind dares its follies own;
Or when Misfortune's wak'ning power
Compels the sad, reflective hour,
Unless, by desp'rate vices chang'd,
The mind from Virtue's quite estrang'd,
Again returns the Love of Truth
Which gave a grace to early Youth;
Again is cherish'd every thought
Which the first fond Instructress taught.
",,16382,"","A certain sense of right and wrong may be ""kneaded in a mind so young""","",2009-09-14 19:46:42 UTC,""
6230,"","Searching ""judge"" and ""reason"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-09-01 00:00:00 UTC,"Whene'er enquiry makes a stir
To trace the human character,
The strict and scrutinising eye
Must look for human frailty,
And will perceive as on we range,
Our dispositions prone to change,
Nor like the features of the face,
Fix'd on their first-born, native place.
So many tempting Syrens play
Their games to lead the heart astray,
So many gay temptations smile
The wav'ring prudence to beguile;
So many worldly interests wake
The pliant feelings to forsake
And wander from the beaten road
In which they hitherto have trod;
That reason from her judgement-seat
Must, with a tender rigour, treat
The venial errors of the mind,
And in severity be kind.
--Our Hero an example shews
To ask the candour we propose,
For he, we are compell'd to own,
Had given his thoughts a different tone.
As we have said, it was his plan
To be a future Gentleman,
And that he only could attain
By seizing all the means to gain
An added heap to that same store
Which luck'ly he possess'd before.
He, therefore, now had laid aside
Those scruples which his boasted pride
Maintain'd against the retail sense
Of the shrewd Grocer's eloquence,
While, with Sir Jeffery Gourmand, he
Preserv'd such pure fidelity.
--And here it should not be forgot
That it was Molly's happy lot,
By some keen plan which he had laid,
To be the Lady's fav'rite maid:
For Molly he sincerely lov'd,
And was with gen'rous passion mov'd;
Nay, when his project he should carry,
He had engag'd the maid to marry:
Thus she was well prepar'd to join
In forwarding the main design;
Which as it may, perhaps, appear
From the surmises hinted here,
Was never, never to refuse
What custom offer'd as their dues,
And all the op'ning hand of chance
Might gather from extravagance.
How far this system may succeed
Will soon be seen by those who read.",,16508,"","Reason ""from her judgement-seat / Must, with a tender rigour, treat / The venial errors of the mind, / And in severity be kind""",Court,2009-09-14 19:47:06 UTC,""