text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
" ""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.
",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,"Heaven ""Braces each nerve, and stamps with energy his soul""",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching HDIS (Poetry),15896,5976
" ""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.
",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,"""Stampt on my soul, and with my life combin'd, / Is the remembrance of my much-lov'd King""",2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching HDIS (Poetry),15897,5976
" Thus saying, to her wildly throbbing breast,
Which rose as if convuls'd with amorous pain,
With grasp ecstatic she the Monarch press'd.
A kindling ardour rush'd thro' ev'ry vein,
Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain
The soft impressions which his heart assail'd.
But faith and duty soon resum'd their reign:
He paus'd, he sigh'd, as reason's pow'r unveil'd
The artifice refin'd which o'er his soul prevail'd.",2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,"""Panting he gaz'd, scarce able to sustain / The soft impressions which his heart assail'd.""",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15900,5976
" As hung the list'ning warriors on his song
He saw the varying passions as they rose,
And mark'd in every face th' emotion strong.
Sudden a melancholy theme he chose;
And, as he sung the fallen hero's woes,
The sympathetic chords he softly press'd.
Still, at each mournful modulation's close,
Th' impression sad pervaded every breast,
Each moisten'd eye the power of melody confess'd.",2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,""" Th' impression sad pervaded every breast,""",2005-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Impression,"","Searching ""breast"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15901,5976
" ""Cease base seducers! cease; against your art
""By truth and virtue is my firm mind steel'd.
""If ye be human, hence, far hence depart;
""But, in those forms if Dæmons be conceal'd,
""Guard me, ye Saints! ye succouring Angels shield!
""Great Ruler of the world! thy suppliant hear;
""Strip their false semblance, let them stand reveal'd:
""Tho' rob'd in all their terrors they appear,
""Arm'd with thy faith my soul can never yield to fear!""",2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,"""'Cease base seducers! cease; against your art / 'By truth and virtue is my firm mind steel'd.""",2005-06-09 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Metal,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15902,5976
" He ended. Thus th' infernal King replied.
""Imperious Fiend! thy ardour I commend,
""And praise the haughtiness and stubborn pride,
""Which, whether good or ill thy steps attend,
""Forbid thee from thy dignity to bend.
""These are my darling attributes, which heal
""Remorse and shame, which crimes with virtues blend,
""Which teach the soul conviction to conceal,
""And the firm heart against upbraiding conscience steel.",2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,"""'These are my darling attributes, which heal / 'Remorse and shame, which crimes with virtues blend, / 'Which teach the soul conviction to conceal, / 'And the firm heart against upbraiding conscience steel.""",2005-06-09 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Metal,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15903,5976
" ""Might I without presumption sketch a plan,
""By which Heav'n's high behest to circumvent,
""And fix our empire o'er the soul of man,
""Thus would I realize my great intent.
""Let your expertest ministers be sent
""His heart against compassion's touch to steel;
""'Till, callous grown, he ceases to lament
""The tortures which his suff'ring victims feel,
""When from his hand they shrink, and make their vain appeal.",2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,"""'Let your expertest ministers be sent/ 'His heart against compassion's touch to steel;",2005-06-09 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Metal,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15904,5976
"""Immortal Powers with thee their efforts join,
""And me, their active minister, they send
""To aid thy cause and prosper thy design,
""Still on thy steps with watchful care t' attend,
""Still thy vindictive measures to befriend,
""And for to-morrow's proof thy soul to steel.
""Then o'er thee shall my fav'ring wings extend;
""I will instruct thee with the Peers to deal,
""And skilfully the truth in mystery to conceal.
",2009-09-14 19:45:02 UTC,"""'Still thy vindictive measures to befriend, / 'And for to-morrow's proof thy soul to steel.""",2005-06-12 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Metal,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15905,5976
" For now the Fiends, whom Moloch left in trust
O'er England's plains rebellion's flame to spread,
Had gain'd dominion o'er his soul unjust.
With subtle skill his daring hopes they fed,
And, while around their spells accurs'd they shed,
For deeds of foul import his breast they steel'd:
With crowns ideal they adorn'd his head,
And tempting baits of fancied power reveal'd,
While the barb'd hook within they artfully conceal'd.",2009-09-14 19:45:03 UTC,""" And, while around their spells accurs'd they shed, / For deeds of foul import his breast they steel'd""",2005-06-13 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Metal,"","Searching ""breast"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15906,5976
" ""When, by resentment urg'd or mov'd by hate,
""He sought some rival Chieftain to molest,
""Forth rush'd his deadly ministers of fate.
""Remorseless fury steel'd each rugged breast;
""Disdaining perils, negligent of rest,
""With fix'd resolve their purpose they pursued,
""Nor ceas'd their foul enthusiastic quest,
""'Till o'er their victim's prostrate corse they stood,
""And stamp'd their tyrant's law in characters of blood.",2009-09-14 19:45:03 UTC,"""Remorseless fury steel'd each rugged breast""",2005-06-13 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,Metal,"","Searching ""breast"" and ""steel"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15907,5976