work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3352,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""iron"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-06-08 00:00:00 UTC,"Adorable captivity
Which sets a world of prisoners free
From sin and Satan's iron chain!
Our souls Thou offerest to release;
Pardon and liberty and peace
We all may through Thy bonds obtain.",2011-06-27,8625,"","""From sin and Satan's iron chain! / Our souls Thou offerest to release.""",Fetters,2011-05-27 14:52:17 UTC,S. John. Chapter XVIII.
5247,"",HDIS (Poetry),2004-08-09 00:00:00 UTC,"The muse no longer now, with chearful strain,
Describes the charms of this Hesperian scene;
But thus, retiring, wakes her plaintive voice:
As Eve bewail'd the loss of Paradise.
Though all thy flow'rets bloom beyond compare,
Thy fountains more than other fountains fair;
No shrubs, no trees, as thine so fresh and gay,
More soft thy songsters flute from ev'ry spray:
Sweet scene of love! what blissful charms are thine!
And must I all thy dear delights resign?
Yes, fleeting Time, with frowning brow severe,
Sternly forbids a longer durance here;
And other scenes the roving muse invite,
For fickle mortals still in change delight;
For pleasure new awakens new desire,
And makes the past with slighter pangs retire;
Progressive thus, each sublunary joy
Shall quickly vanish, or will quickly cloy;
Except the pleasures that a virtuous mind
In acts of goodness may for ever find.
The reason's plain; the grosser joys of sense
Ne'er mix with those of pure benevolence;
That rapt'ring foretaste of the bliss above,
Where all is endless ecstasy and love.
But earthly pleasures, like man's earthly frame,
Nor long endure, nor long remain the same:
Yet, though so transitory is their date,
Adapted to this low terrestrial state,
They're fix'd to be in Providence's plan
Yearly renew'd, and last the date of man;
Not meant by heav'n to perish unenjoy'd,
Or pass'd with scorn by superstitious pride;
Nor, grov'ling here, the brutal soul to chain,
Where happiness is still alloy'd with pain;
But there the soaring intellect to fix,
Where pain or sorrow ne'er with transport mix.",2011-05-26,14155,"","Earthly pleasures are ""Not meant by heav'n to perish unenjoy'd, / Or pass'd with scorn by superstitious pride; / Nor, grov'ling here, the brutal soul to chain, / Where happiness is still alloy'd with pain; / But there the soaring intellect to fix, / Where pain or sorrow ne'er with transport mix.""",Fetters,2011-05-26 20:42:53 UTC,""
6163,"","Searching in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""mind"" and ""chains"" ",2005-05-27 00:00:00 UTC,"Thro' this incongruous Crowd no Friendship's found--
This grows, alone, on consecrated ground!
In such a soil, in such inclement sky,
Mildews, and blights, both leaves, and blooms, destroy!
Pride's caterpillars eat its infant fruits--
Lust's canker-worms corrode its feeble roots--
The fires of Passion, or the frosts of Sloth,
If ever planted, still impede its growth--
Like damps, or droughts, destroy its tender head,
Or tempests tear it from its barren bed:
Religion can, alone, light up its fires--
Love only keeps alive its pure desires;
To cherish Grace, and twine the golden chain,
Uniting Minds, and making one of twain--
While moral Virtues link the mass, immense,
Inspiring courtesy, and confidence--
To shape the parts, and keep the polish pure,
Connecting each, and holding all secure.",2011-05-26,16287,"","""To cherish Grace, and twine the golden chain, / Uniting Minds, and making one of twain.""",Fetters,2011-07-20 17:03:52 UTC,""
6766,"",Hymn pointed out to me by David Vander Meulen,2010-10-27 03:30:36 UTC,"Long my imprison'd spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature's night:
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray;
I woke; the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and follow'd Thee.
(ll. 19-24)",2011-05-26,18006,"","""Long my imprison'd spirit lay, / Fast bound in sin and nature's night: / Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; / I woke; the dungeon flamed with light; / My chains fell off, my heart was free, / I rose, went forth, and follow'd Thee.""",Fetters,2011-05-26 19:21:29 UTC,Part II
7020,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry); text from ECCO-TCP",2011-07-20 14:46:30 UTC,"WE deem the Saints, from mortal Flesh releas'd,
With brighter Day, and bolder Raptures blest:
Sense now no more precludes the distant Thought,
And naked Souls now feel the GOD they sought,
But thy great Soul, which walk'd with GOD on Earth
Can scarce be nearer by that second Birth:
By Change of Place dull Bodies may improve,
But Spirits to their Bliss advance by Love.
Thy Change insensible brought no Surprize,
Inur'd to Innocence and Paradise:
For Earth, not Heav'n, thou thro' a Glass didst view,
The Glass was Love; and Love no Evil knew,
But in all Places only Heav'n did shew.
Canst Thou Love more, when from a Body freed,
Which so much Life, so little had of Need?
So pure, it seem'd for This alone design'd,
To usher forth the Virtues of the Mind!
From Nature's Chain, from Earthly Dross set free,
One only Appetite remained in Thee:
That Appetite it mourn'd but once deny'd,
For when it ceas'd from serving GOD, it dy'd.
(p. 16)",2014-02-09,18934,"","""To usher forth the Virtues of the Mind! / From Nature's Chain, from Earthly Dross set free, / One only Appetite remained in Thee.""",Fetters and Metal,2014-02-09 20:35:52 UTC,""
7021,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chains"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-20 16:02:21 UTC,"In fetters confined Our body complains,
Oppress'd is our mind, With heavier chains;
A burden of evils We horribly feel,
It turns us to devils, And sinks us to hell.",,18935,"The first prayer I found in HDIS is not in this book. Are there later editions or variant states and issues? Note, the 1785 edition seems to include 10 prayers only; the prayer from The Poetical Works is numbered 13. REVISIT and trace citation.","""In fetters confined Our body complains, / Oppress'd is our mind , With heavier chains.""",Fetters,2011-07-20 16:06:24 UTC,""
7024,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-20 17:21:30 UTC,"Can arbitrary influence e'er controul
The in-born bias of Man's soaring Soul?
Can Mammon's votaries vainly hope to bind,
In shining shackles, his immortal Mind?
Put on some tinkling bells, and tinsel chains,
And hope he'll trudge with joy, 'mid griefs and pains?
Hope, tho' degraded to Man's meanest shape,
'Mid scoff and ridicule he'll act the ape?
That prison'd Minds will cease to pine, and mope,
'Tis Fools' absurd philosophism to hope.
Not bulls from Popes, or warrants back'd by Kings,
The Martyr's burning piles, or Miscreants' strings,
Can faithful Souls by fear, or force, subdue,
Who know their crimes are cross'd, and Heav'n is true--
For tho' imperious Popes, or Kings, may kill,
No earthly pow'r can bind the free-born Will:
'Tis like the thwarting elements at strife,
Or adverse interests torturing Man and Wife--
'Tis oil with water join'd, or fire with phlegm,
What Dolt would ever dream of mixing them?
Sooner might foolish Coachman hope to force,
The kind esteem of beaten, batter'd, horse--
Or pert Postilion, mad with megrims, think,
By whips and wales to make the creature drink:
I may by dint of discipline, compel
The fear-struck animal to travel well,
But never can by any force, or fright,
Produce pure love, or prompt an appetite.",,18939,"","""Can Mammon's votaries vainly hope to bind, / In shining shackles, his immortal Mind?""",Fetters,2011-07-20 17:21:30 UTC,""
7154,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""thought"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2012-01-09 17:01:56 UTC,"In that day I will break his yoke, &c.
--xxx. 8.
Hasten, Lord, the day of rest
From this indwelling sin,
Vindicate Thy church oppress'd,
And still enslaved within;
Burst our bonds, and let us go
From every thought of evil freed,
Pure in heart, and saints below,
And like our sinless Head.",,19414,"Citing Jeremiah 30:8, ""For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him"" (KJV trans.)","""Hasten, Lord, the day of rest / From this indwelling sin, / Vindicate Thy church oppress'd, / And still enslaved within; / Burst our bonds, and let us go / From every thought of evil freed, / Pure in heart, and saints below, / And like our sinless Head.""",Fetters,2013-11-01 03:03:24 UTC,""
7156,"","Searching ""bond"" and ""passion"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2012-01-09 18:11:13 UTC,"The slave of hell and sin,
Lord I to Thee complain:
O make me free within
From pride, and passion's chain,
My spirit by Thy bonds release,
And bid me go in perfect peace.",,19419,"","""O make me free within / From pride, and passion's chain, / My spirit by Thy bonds release, / And bid me go in perfect peace.""",Fetters,2012-01-09 18:11:28 UTC,S. Luke. Chapter XXII.