work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4808,"","Reading; Found again searching ""breast"" and ""engrav"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2009-09-14 19:37:28 UTC,"So numerous herds are driven o'er the rock,
No print is left of all the passing flock;
So sings the wind around the solid stone,
So vainly beat the waves with fruitless moan.
Tedious the toil, and great the workman's care,
Who dare attempt to fix impressions there.
But should some swain more skillful than the rest,
Engrave his name on this cold marble breast,
Not rolling ages could deface that name--
Through all the storms of life 'tis still the same:
Though length of years with moss may shade the ground
Deep, though unseen, remains the secret wound.
(ll. 72-83, p. 65)",2005-03-09,12862,"•After the speaker has castigated changeable Bathurst for falling in and out of love (with Cloe, Celia, and Belinda), she compares his easily impressed mind to her ""cold marble breast."" -- Note shifting from landscape to sculpture. (Batuhurst's mind was a burning plain that was easily impressed, but the mark was just as easily effaced.)","""But should some swain more skillful than the rest, / his name on this cold marble breast, / Not rolling ages could deface that name.""",Writing,2013-11-17 16:41:44 UTC,""
5963,"","Searching ""iron"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO",2005-06-07 00:00:00 UTC,"When injuries have gor'd a well-wrought soul,
'Tis urg'd we should forgive and then forget!
When Priestley fats in Diocesan chair,
When Genius, Wit and Virtue are ador'd,
When Pitt shall kiss the Muses on their hill,
When Lady Grosv'nor curtsies to the creed,
When Gunning's sportive, who is all for-Lorn,
When Strathmore's Countess martyrs all her cats,
When Banks prefers Philosophers to flies,
When Tippoo makes the decalogue his law,
When Providence gives Q. his second sight,
When Gloster's Duchess names her Grandmama,
When regal finger purifies the blood,
When Sandwich writhes at tales of defloration,
When Cambria's Prince and meanness are allied,
When Israel's dingy produce hallow pigs,
When Lonsdale's lord becomes a man of wax,
When Dysart gives his mutton to the poor,
When Drapers' yards exceed the scale an inch,
When Burke and Freedom eat with the same spoon,
Then from the iron tablet of my mind,
Will I efface my catalogue of wrongs.
(pp. 37-9 in 1791 printing)",,15863,•I've included twice: Writing and Metal,"""Then from the iron tablet of my mind, / Will I efface my catalogue of wrongs.""",Metal,2014-02-26 22:27:24 UTC,""