theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
"","""Your dear idea reigns, and reigns alone; / Each thought intoxicated homage yields, / And riots wanton in forbidden fields.""",3224,Inhabitants,Reading,8468,2004-07-19 00:00:00 UTC,2010-10-04 17:39:47 UTC,2010-10-04,"","'I burn, I burn, as when thro' ripen'd corn
By driving winds the crackling flames are borne.'
Now, maddening-wild, I curse that fatal night,
Now bless the hour that charm'd my guilty sight.
In vain the Laws their feeble force oppose:
Chain'd at his feet, they groan Love's vanquish'd foes.
In vain Religion meets my shrinking eye:
I dare not combat, but I turn and fly.
Conscience in vain upbraids th'unhallow'd fire.
Love grasps his scorpions--stifled they expire.
Reason drops headlong from his sacred throne.
Your dear idea reigns, and reigns alone;
Each thought intoxicated homage yields,
And riots wanton in forbidden fields.
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Free Indirect Discourse,"""The dreadful tales of robbers' bloody deeds, / That oft had swell'd his theme while nightly stretch'd / Now crowded on his mind in all their rage / Of pistols, purses, stand! deliver! death!""",3385,Inhabitants,"Searching ""mind"" and ""crowd"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""heart;"" confirmed in ECCO.",8666,2006-03-07 00:00:00 UTC,2014-02-27 21:35:09 UTC,,Part II. -- English Poems.,"The dreadful tales of robbers' bloody deeds,
That oft had swell'd his theme while nightly stretch'd
Beside the list'ning peasant's blazing hearth,
Now crowded on his mind in all their rage
Of pistols, purses, stand! deliver! death!
Trembling he stumbled on, and ever rolled
His jealous eyes around. Each waving shrub
Doubl'd his fears, till, horrible to thought!
The sound of hasty steps alarm'd his ear,
Fast hurrying up behind. Sudden he stopt,
And stooping, could discern, with terror struck,
Between him and the welkin's scanty light,
A black gigantic form of human shape,
And formidably arm'd. Ah! who can tell
The horrors dread that at this instant struck
Ralph's frozen frame. His few gray rev'rend hairs
Rose bristling up, and from his aged scalp,
Up-bore the affrighted bonnet. Down he dropt
Beneath th'oppressive load, but gath'ring soon
A little strength, in desperation crawl'd
To reach some neighb'ring shrubs' concealing shade.
(pp. 263-4 in 1790 edition)",""
Ruling Passion / Family Within,"""Some sort all our qualities each to its tribe, / And think Human Nature they truly describe""",5709,Inhabitants,"Searching ""ruling passion"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15237,2004-05-20 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:43:07 UTC,,•Great anti-metaphor poem. INTEREST.
•This last stanza is interesting and subtle. Family within metaphors.,"Good Lord, what is Man! For as simple he looks,
Do but try to develop his hooks and his crooks!
With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil,
All in all he's a problem must puzzle the Devil.
On his one ruling passion Sir Pope hugely labors,
That, like th'old Hebrew walking-switch, eats up its neighbours.
Human Nature's his show-box--your friend, would you know him?
Pull the string, Ruling Passion--the picture will show him.
What pity, in rearing so beauteous a system,
One trifling particular--Truth--should have miss'd him!
For, spite of his fine theoretic positions,
Mankind is a science defies definitions.
Some sort all our qualities each to its tribe,
And think Human Nature they truly describe:
Have you found this, or t'other? There's more in the wind,
As by one drunken fellow his comrades you'll find.
But such is the flaw, or the depth of the plan
In the make of that wonderful creature called Man,
No two virtues, whatever relation they claim,
Nor even two different shades of the same,
Though like as was ever twin brother to brother,
Possessing the one shall imply you've the other.
",Middle Stanzas
"","""Peace and Hope, sweet twins of Virtue, / Shall be strangers to thy breast""",5720,Inhabitants,"Searching ""breast"" and ""stranger"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15250,2006-03-05 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:43:09 UTC,,"","Peace and Hope, sweet twins of Virtue,
Shall be strangers to thy breast:
Fell Despair, with Terror's wild crew,
Still shall rob thy couch of rest.
Round thy sceptre, gain'd by treason,
Guile and factious strife shall twine:
Base Dishonour, with full blazon,
Crown that shameless head of thine.",From Elegaic Poems on Illustrious Persons
"","""Pale Fear, and all her haggard train, / That generate and nurture pain, / And each unwelcome mental guest, / Lay dormant in the human breast.""",5723,Inhabitants,Searching in HDIS (Poetry),15253,2004-06-22 00:00:00 UTC,2012-01-12 21:00:50 UTC,2012-01-12,•DNB BIO. Pseudonym Anthony Pasquin. Wit and satirist of his day. Studied engraving. 1786 adopts pseudonym. Success with Poems (1789). Published pamphlets as anti-Foxite Whig. Villified by Tory enemy William Gifford in The Baviad and Maeviad (1797). Poverty. Lawsuit unsuccessful. Flees to America. Edits and publishes the Columbian Gazette. Works as itinerant painter. Edits more papers. Switches from supporting Hamilton to supporting Jefferson. Back in England 1806. Probably dies in America.
,"In such an age, a guileless twain,
Roger and Sue, illum'd the plain;
Unbred in academic schools,
They follow'd Reason and her rules;
In all the paths of prudence trod,
And lov'd their friend, and fear'd their God.
Then Freedom rov'd the mountain's side,
And Innocence was all their pride;
No sadd'ning love-lorn maiden then,
Bemoan'd the perfidy of men;
For Virtue bless'd the rural throng,
Inform'd their hearts, and fed their song.
No vicious tenets broke their rest,
(Like missives from the peevish east,
Blighting the wholesome rip'ning ear)
Or laid the basis of a tear.
The dirty passions of the mind,
Were then subdu'd, controul'd, confin'd;
Pale Fear, and all her haggard train,
That generate and nurture pain,
And each unwelcome mental guest,
Lay dormant in the human breast;
No Cypress then deform'd the brow,
Or mourning willow noted woe;
Or broken oaths made maids forlorn,
For Woe and Vice were then unborn;
Their lives unchoak'd with baneful weeds,
Pass'd in a change of worthy deeds;
The sacred commerce fixt and known,
Supreme delight was all their own.
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"","""But in thy breast a mind inhabits, proof / Against all charms.""",5749,Inhabitants,HDIS (Poetry),15316,2004-01-02 00:00:00 UTC,2012-01-12 21:14:51 UTC,,"","Who? whence? thy city and thy birth declare.
Amazed I see thee with that potion drench'd
Yet unenchanted; never man before
Once pass'd it through his lips, and lived the same;
But in thy breast a mind inhabits, proof
Against all charms. Come then--I know thee well.
Thou art Ulysses artifice-renown'd,
Of whose arrival here in his return
From Ilium, Hermes of the golden wand
Was ever wont to tell me. Sheath again
Thy sword, and let us on my bed reclined,
Mutual embrace, that we may trust thenceforth
Each other, without jealousy or fear.
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,"""Come then, my soul, be this thy guest, / And leave to knaves and fools the rest.""",5773,Inhabitants,"Searching ""soul"" and ""guest"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15386,2006-03-13 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:43:31 UTC,,"","Come then, my soul, be this thy guest,
And leave to knaves and fools the rest.
With this thou ever shalt be gay,
And night shall brighten into day.",Content. Vision IV.
Inner and Outer,"""The tops of these scarce veil'd the roots of those; / A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd / And to herself responsive Echo talk'd.""",5782,Inhabitants,"Searching ""fancy"" and ""court"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15428,2004-08-22 00:00:00 UTC,2013-06-04 16:48:01 UTC,,•INTEREST. Metaphor of mind is here exterior?,"O'erbreath'd we come where, 'twixt impending hills,
Ran the joint current of two gurgling rills;
On either hand, adown each fearful steep,
Hung forth the shaggy horrors, dark and deep:
Here, thro' brown umbrage, glow'd the vivid green,
And headlong slopes, and winding paths between;
Growth above many a growth, tall trees arose,
The tops of these scarce veil'd the roots of those;
A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd
And to herself responsive Echo talk'd.
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"","""Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest, / Rending the sphere of our distracted breast!""",5798,Inhabitants,"Searching ""mind"" and ""guest"" in HDIS (Poetry)",15466,2006-03-13 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:43:43 UTC,,"","O, the fell conflict, the intestine strife,
This clash of good and evil, death and life!
What, what are all the wars of sea and wind,
Or wreck of matter, to This War of Mind?
Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest,
Rending the sphere of our distracted breast!
Who shall deliver, in a fight so fell;
Who save from this intestine dog of hell?",""
"","""Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.""",7382,Inhabitants,Reading,20143,2013-04-25 18:56:30 UTC,2013-04-25 18:56:30 UTC,,"","The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could percieve.
And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country. placing it under its mental deity.
Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental dieties from their objects: thus began Priesthood.
Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales.
And at length they pronounced that the Gods had orderd such things.
Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.
(Plate 11)",""