id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
14976,"• INTEREST: punning on ""line,"" poet/insect. USE IN ENTRY?",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),Animals,2005-06-01 00:00:00 UTC,,5604,"",Volume II,2013-06-13 16:10:58 UTC,"""Thus on the golden thread that Fancy weaves / Buoyant, as Hope's illusive flattery breathes, / The young and visionary Poet leaves / Life's dull realities, while sevenfold wreaths / Of rainbow light around his head revolve.""","Sonnet LXXVII.
To the Insect of the Gossamer
Small, viewless aeronaut, that by the line
Of Gossamer suspended, in mid air
Float'st on a sun-beam--Living atom, where
Ends thy breeze-guided voyage? With what design
In æther dost thou launch thy form minute,
Mocking the eye? Alas! before the veil
Of denser clouds shall hide thee, the pursuit
Of the keen Swift may end thy fairy sail!
Thus on the golden thread that Fancy weaves
Buoyant, as Hope's illusive flattery breathes,
The young and visionary Poet leaves
Life's dull realities, while sevenfold wreaths
Of rainbow light around his head revolve.
Ah! soon at Sorrow's touch the radiant dreams dissolve.
(ii, p. 18) "
20616,"",Reading,Animals,2013-06-13 15:41:23 UTC,,7426,"","",2013-06-13 15:41:23 UTC,"""Bid Syren Hope resume her long lost part, / And chase the vulture Care--that feeds upon the heart.""","Sonnet XLII.
Composed During a Walk on the Downs, in November 1787
The dark and pillowy cloud; the sallow trees,
Seem o'er the ruins of the year to mourn;
And cold and hollow, the inconstant breeze
Sobs thro' the falling leaves and wither'd fern.
O'er the tall brow of yonder chalky bourn,
The evening-shades their gather'd darkness fling,
While, by the lingering light, I scarce discern
The shrieking night-jar, sail on heavy wing.
Ah! yet a little--and propitious Spring
Crown'd with fresh flowers, shall wake the woodland strain;
But no gay change revolving seasons bring,
To call forth pleasure from the soul of pain,
Bid Syren Hope resume her long lost part,
And chase the vulture Care--that feeds upon the heart."