id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text 14530,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""fancy""",Impressions,2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC,2012-01-28,5422,"",I've included the entire poem,2012-01-28 17:18:44 UTC,"""And the more I with study my fancy refin'd, / The deeper impression she made on my mind.""","By the side of a grove, at the foot of a hill,
Where whisper'd the beech, and where murmur'd the rill;
I vow'd to the muses my time and my care,
Since neither could win me the smiles of my fair.

Free I rang'd like the birds, like the birds free I sung,
And Delia's lov'd name scarce escap'd from my tongue:
But if once a smooth accent delighted my ear,
I should wish, unawares, that my Delia might hear.

With fairest ideas my bosom I stor'd,
Allusive to none but the nymph I ador'd!
And the more I with study my fancy refin'd,
The deeper impression she made on my mind
.

So long as of nature the charms I pursue,
I still must my Delia's dear image renew:
The graces have yielded with Delia to rove,
And the muses are all in alliance with love.
(I, p. 161)"