work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 6975,"",Reading,2011-06-23 20:15:45 UTC,"Fables and Dreams my sportive Genius feigns:
Yet Dreams and Fables while I range with Art,
Caught by their magic Force, to serious Pains
Th’ inventive Head betrays the simple Heart:
Imagin’d Woes with real Grief I mourn,
Imagin’d Wrongs resent with real Scorn.

Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d,
Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws?
Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?

Springs Love or Anger from a better Cause?

Ah! not alone the Muse’s gay Deceit
Is empty Fable, but my Hopes and Fears:
This busy Scene is one perpetual Cheat,
One wild Delirium all my fruitless Years!
(p. 49)",,18802,"","""Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d, / Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws? / Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?""","",2011-06-23 20:15:45 UTC,""