theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
"","""Vain wandring Thoughts, that crowd within my Breast / Do oft obstruct my Soul from Solid Rest; / like to vagrant Clouds, obscure the Mind / Which should to serious watching be inclin'd.""",4004,Inhabitants,Searching in HDIS (Poetry),10387,2006-03-07 00:00:00 UTC,2013-06-04 16:07:02 UTC,2013-06-04,"","O that my Mind were cent'red where it ought!
Entirely freed from all distracting Thought:
Vain wandring Thoughts, that crowd within my Breast
Do oft obstruct my Soul from Solid Rest;
And, like to vagrant Clouds, obscure the Mind
Which should to serious watching be inclin'd:
Ah! Rise thou Sun of Righteousness, thy Light
Can soon dispel the Gloominess of Night:
Appear, appear, let thy Victorious Ray,
And long'd-for Presence, still renew the Day;
Whereby my slumb'ring Eyes may walk and see
The Dawning Morning of Felicity,
Still more and more break forth to perfect Day,
Whose Heav'nly Light guides in the Blessed Way,
That leads to thy renowned Holy Hill;
Where true Obedience to thy Sacred Will
Makes glad the Hearts of thy Redeemed Ones,
Who know the Comfort of Adopted Sons;
And can sing Praises to that Gracious Hand,
Which rais'd 'em up, and taught 'em how to stand,
To walk and run the pleasant Paths of Peace,
Rejoycing in true Joys that never cease.",I've included the entire poem
"","""Small hopes he had, yet could not choose but try / His father's stormy mind to pacify.""",5880,"","Searching ""mind"" in LION",22922,2013-10-06 19:42:09 UTC,2013-10-06 19:42:09 UTC,,"","Griev'd was the princely Jonathan to hear
A sentence so unjust and so severe;
Small hopes he had, yet could not choose but try
His father's stormy mind to pacify,
And to that purpose, in an humble tone,
Ask'd ""Why shall David die?--What hath he done?""
(p. 39, ll. 121-126)",""
"","""And, with a stormy mind and martial heat, / March'd on, bestowing many a direful threat / On Nabal now, who single must not fall, / But he, and his own family withal.""",5880,"","Searching ""mind"" in LION",22924,2013-10-06 19:44:40 UTC,2013-10-06 19:44:40 UTC,,"","He to his soldiers forthwith gave the word,
'Arm, arm with speed:' and girding on his sword,
Drew forth four hundred, which he thought enough,
Leaving the rest to guard the camp and stuff,
And, with a stormy mind and martial heat,
March'd on, bestowing many a direful threat
On Nabal now, who single must not fall,
But he, and his own family withal.
(p. 73, ll. 71-78)",""
"","""Unsteady nature, varying like the wind, / Hurries to each extreme th'unstable mind; / At sea becalm'd, we wish some brisker gales / Would on us rise, and fill our limber sails: / We have our wish; and straight our skiff is toss'd / So high, we are in danger to be lost.""",5880,"","Searching ""mind"" in LION",22927,2013-10-06 19:49:01 UTC,2013-10-06 19:49:01 UTC,,"","Unsteady nature, varying like the wind,
Hurries to each extreme th'unstable mind;
At sea becalm'd, we wish some brisker gales
Would on us rise, and fill our limber sails:
We have our wish; and straight our skiff is toss'd
So high, we are in danger to be lost.
At land we would be foremost, make a stir,
And ride at neck-and-all, with whip, and spur;
We would be, would have all, are loath to stay
For future rights, 'till Providence make way.
This is the nature of ambitious man,
Soaring as fast, as high too as he can;
Whereas, would we but bridle our desire,
'Till the due time, we might rise safely higher.
(p. 148, ll. 15-28)",""