work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 4569,"","Searching ""imagination"" and ""cell"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-08-28 00:00:00 UTC,"Yet in this infant state, by stealth, by chance,
Th'increasing mind still feels a slow advance,
Thro' the dark Void ev'n gleams of Truth can shoot,
And love of Liberty upheave at root.
No more the tender seeds unquicken'd lie,
But stretch their form and wait for wings to fly:
Sensation first, the groundwork of the whole,
Deals ray by ray each image to the soul:
Perception true to ev'ry nerve receives
The various impulse, now exults, now grieves;
Thought works and ends, and dares afresh begin,
So whirpools pour out Streams, and suck them in;
That Thought romantic Memory detains
In unknown cells and in aereal chains;
Imagination thence her flow'rs translates,
And Fancy emulous of God, creates
:
Experience slowly moving next appears,
Wise but by habit, judging but from years;
Till Knowledge comes, a wise and gen'rous heir,
And opes the Reservoir averse to spare:
And, Reason rises, the Newtonian Sun,
Moves all, guides all, and all sustains in one.",2011-05-23,12035,"•I've included twice: Cell and Flowers (Chain)
•Rich Passage","""That Thought romantic Memory detains / In unknown cells and in aereal chains; / Imagination thence her flow'rs translates, / And Fancy emulous of God, creates.""",Fetters and Rooms,2011-05-26 18:17:41 UTC,""