work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 5368,Ruling Passion,"Searching HDIS for ""ruling passion""",2004-05-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Long I every means have tried
  To subdue the inbred ill;
Still I am not sanctified,
  Rules my ruling passion still
;
Neither prayers nor vows restrain,
Tears for ages flow in vain.",,14443,"CROSS-REFERENCE. Text is close to Pope: ""Nor pray'rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain, / Nor tears for ages taught to flow in vain"" (Eloisa to Abelard): REVISIT?","""Long I every means have tried / To subdue the inbred ill; / Still I am not sanctified, / Rules my ruling passion still.""","",2014-08-06 04:21:39 UTC,""