work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5627,Blank Slate,"Searching ""blank"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-03-07 00:00:00 UTC,"O dreadful chaos of the ruin'd mind!
Lost to itself, to virtue, human kind!
From earth, from heaven, a meteor flaming wide,
Link'd to no system, to no world allied;
A blank of Nature, vanish'd every thought
That Nature, Reason, that Experience taught,
Past, present, future trace, alike destroy'd,
Where Love alone can fill the mighty void:
That Love on unreturning pinions flown
We grasp a shade, the noble substance gone--
From one ador'd and once adoring, dream
Of Friendship's tenderness--ev'n cold esteem
(Humble our vows) rejected with disdain,
Ask a last conference, but a parting strain,
More suppliant still, the wretched suit advance,
Plead for a look, a momentary glance,
A latter token--on Destruction's brink
We catch the feeble plank of Hope, and sink.--",,15053,"","A ruined mind may be ""A blank of Nature, vanish'd every thought / That Nature, Reason, that Experience taught.""","",2009-09-14 19:42:39 UTC,""
5635,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"Fair sculpture of Ammon's young graces!
My lady with whim shall we tax?
On paper who marks thy faint traces,
Which Stella stamps lively in wax?
Of their hearts they make mutual confession:
That, cold to emotions once felt,
The mother's scarce yields to impression--
--The daughter's can soften and melt.",,15066,•INTEREST. REVISIT. Use in entry.
•Cross-reference: Allen Ramsay's poem on a seal of Homer's head,"Hearts may scarce yield to impression while ""The daughter's can soften and melt""","",2009-09-14 19:42:41 UTC,I've included the entire poem