id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
14698,"",HDIS,"",2004-07-19 00:00:00 UTC,,5488,"",Stanza XIII,2013-08-07 18:07:28 UTC,"""Gentler shapes, and softer scenes disclose, / To melt the feeling heart, yet soothe its tenderest woes""","XIII.
He said, and stalk'd away.--Ah Goddess! cease
Thus with terrific forms to rack my brain;
These horrid phantoms shake the throne of peace,
And Reason calls her boasted powers in vain:
Then change thy magic wand,
Thy dreadful troops disband,
And gentler shapes, and softer scenes disclose,
To melt the feeling heart, yet soothe its tenderest woes.
(p. 9 in 1757 edition)"
22116,"",Reading,"",2013-08-07 18:12:43 UTC,,5488,"",Stanza I,2013-08-07 18:12:58 UTC,"""Queen of the human heart! at whose command / The swelling tides of mighty Passion rise."""," I.
Queen of the human heart! at whose command
The swelling tides of mighty Passion rise;
Melpomene, support my vent'rous hand,
And aid thy suppliant in his bold emprise,
From the gay scenes of pride
Do thou his footsteps guide
To Nature's aweful courts, where nurst of yore,
Young Shakespear, Fancy's child, was taught his various lore.
(p. 3 in 1757 ed.)"