theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context "","""Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age; / Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries / Can melt his iron heart in any wise""",3346,Metal,"Searching ""iron"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (Poetry)",8619,2004-07-19 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:33:40 UTC,,"•BIO: part of Gibbon, Boswell, Reynolds, Johnson's circle. Forty unpublished poems were published in his Works of 1803.
"," So wills that darke and sable-stoled Mage,
Who in those walles his art dothe exercise;
Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age;
Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries
Can melt his iron heart in any wise:

Als by his power and virtue magicalle,
A wond'rous yoke about their neckes he ties,
Which eft their tender skinnes doth frette and galle,
All silkenne as it seems, with sore and endlesse thralle.",""