work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 5987,Stream of Consciousness,Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2003-12-29 00:00:00 UTC,"Dear Anna--between friend and friend,
Prose answers every common end;
Serves, in a plain and homely way,
To express the occurrence of the day;
Our health, the weather, and the news,
What walks we take, what books we choose,
And all the floating thoughts we find
Upon the surface of the mind.

(ll. 109-168, pp. 263-5)",,15922,"•Published in William Hayley's The Life, and Posthumous Writings, William Cowper, Esqr., 3 vols. ,1803-4.","""And all the floating thoughts we find / Upon the surface of the mind.""","",2018-06-18 15:42:56 UTC,""