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Religion of Author:
"Methodist"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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Work title:
"Love "
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1743
"My heart and flesh cry out for God: / There would I fix my soul's abode, / As birds that in the altars nest."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: w. 1789, 1804
"While Vanity unveils her whiffling flags, / Her glittering trinkets, and her tawdry rags-- / Spreads spangled nets, and fills her philter'd bowl, / To fix each Sense, and fascinate the Soul-- / Her birdlime twigs contrived with such sly Art, / That while they tangle thoughts, they trap the heart...
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)