work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5974,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2003-12-30 00:00:00 UTC,"Pursue the theme, and you shall find
A disciplined and furnish'd mind
To be at least expedient,
And, after summing all the rest,
Religion ruling in the breast
A principal ingredient.
(ll. 175-80, pp. 452-3)",,15884,"•First published in Bull's Poems, Translated from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion, by the late William Cowper, Esq. To which are added some original poems of Mr. Cowper, not inserted in his works, Newport Pagnell, 1801","""Pursue the theme, and you shall find ... after summing all the rest, / Religion ruling in the breast / A principal ingredient.""","",2009-11-30 15:42:44 UTC,""
5975,Ruling Passion,"Searching ""ruling passion"" in HDIS (Restoration and C18)",2004-05-18 00:00:00 UTC," DEAR madam, hear a suppliant's pray'r,
And on our bard your censure spare,
Whase bluntness slights ilk trivial care
Of mock decorum:
Since for a bard its unko rare
To look before him.
With joy to praise, with freedom blame,
To ca' folk by their Christian name,
To speak his mind, but fear or shame,
Was at his fashion:
But virtue his eternal flame,
His ruling passion.
This by-past time, as fame reports,
The author's Muse was out of sorts,
And in some freak, perhaps in dorts,
Or ablins spleen:
She paid her visists at the shorts,
An' lang between.
",,15885,•I've included twice: once in Government and once in Uncategorized
•Published in Elizabeth Scot's Alonzo and Cora (1801),"Virtue may be a man's ""eternal flame"" or ""ruling passion""","",2009-09-14 19:44:59 UTC,I've included the entire poem
5976,Ruling Passion,"Searching HDIS for ""master passion""",2004-05-25 00:00:00 UTC,"""These master passions of the strenuous mind,
""Whether by nature in it's essence bred,
""Or nurtur'd by indulgence unconfin'd
""Are best adapted for our use, to spread
""Our rule destructive and dominion dread.
""Prompted by these to ill, presumptuous man
""T' oppose th' eternal law of Heav'n is led:
""A stranger to himself, he dares to scan
""The Great Eternal Cause, and to correct His plan.
",,15887,•Note that one can be a stranger to oneself...,"A strenuous mind may have ""master passions"" that may be bred by nature or nurtured by indulgence","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
5977,"","Searching ""throne"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-07 00:00:00 UTC," Pride, on thy vesture's purple fold
Let the sky-tinctur'd sapphire blaze,
The emerald shed its milder rays,
And rubies blush in circling gold:
Low at thy nod let suppliants bow,
And crested chiefs precedence yield;
Thy hand the rod of empire wield,
And wreaths of triumph grace thy brow:--
A nobler aim let my ambition own,
Be Love my empire, Lesbia's heart my throne!
",,15888,"",A lover's heart may be one's throne,"",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
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,"",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!'
",,15890,"",A cloud may darkly over one's fancy play,"",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
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!'
",,15891,"","Doubts and fears may ""Contend for empire and distract the mind""","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
5976,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""soul"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC," ""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.
",,15892,•Spoken by the Monarch?,"One may fix his empire ""o'er the soul of man""","",2009-09-14 19:45:00 UTC,""
5976,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-22 00:00:00 UTC," ""'Tis transport worthy of infernal skill,
""To view the struggling and half-vanquish'd soul,
""Led on from crime to crime, entangled still,
""And still compell'd to own our high controul:
""To hear man curse the subtlety which stole
""Insidious empire o'er his weaken'd heart;
""Still framing new pretences, to console
""For added sin, yet by our potent art
""From virtue's bound'ry forc'd still further to depart.",,15893,"","Subtlety may steal ""insidious empire o'er [the] weaken'd heart""","",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,""
5978,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""empire"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2004-08-22 00:00:00 UTC,"The king, surrounded by his victor bands,
In all the pride of conscious virtue stands;
The sounds of homage that around him roll,
Swell not the placid current of his soul.--
Though by the chiefs of shouting hosts adored,
A conquering nation stooping to his sword;
While, with a stronger arm than shook the field,
His clemency compels their souls to yield:
Though myriads burn his purpose to fulfil,
Their rein his wisdom, and their spur his will;
Though conscious Rectitude, with inward voice,
The impulse seconds, and confirms his choice;
In specious colours painting to his mind,
The power unlimited to bless mankind.
Uncheck'd by human barriers, to impart
Wide, the pure dictates of a patriot heart,
Spread peace and justice o'er a smiling land,
Crush stern Oppression with a giant hand;
Yet in Truth's faithful mirror stands reveal'd,
A charge too vast for mortal man to wield.
Convinced, of public care the unnumber'd dyes
From human rights and human crimes that rise,
No single heart can judge, or arm secure,
However active, and however pure;
That the bright lure of arbitrary sway
May tempt the firmest foot from Virtue's way;
With careful hand around his throne he draws
The sacred bulwark of unbiass'd laws.
Or, if awhile his fervid pulse might beat
With the wild frenzy of Ambition's heat,
Sudden the visionary vapours fly
From the mild lustre of Elsitha's eye.
To the soft charities of social life
He turns, from lust of power, and rage of strife;
Feels the true duty of the royal mind,
His first, his purest bliss, to bless mankind.
Scorning the base degenerate power that craves
A hard-wrung homage, from a horde of slaves,
His generous thoughts to nobler fame aspire,
His bosom glows with more celestial fire;
Happy to form, by Virtue's sovereign sway,
A gallant race of freemen to obey,
Respect by deeds of goodness to impart,
And fix his empire o'er the willing heart;
While patriot worth this godlike mandate taught,
""Free be the Briton's action as his thought.""
Such the true pride of Alfred's royal line,
Such of Britannia's kings the right divine.",,15894,"","A king may ""fix his empire o'er the willing heart""","",2009-09-14 19:45:01 UTC,""