Date: 1804, 1816
"Of ink has for ever a flood, / To blacken a bosom of snow!"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1806
"'Now on the bosom of the list'ning Youth / 'Impress, engrave the sacred form of Truth"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1811, 1812
In the "deep record of the Sibyl's leaves, / There no instruction the blank mind receives."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1813
"O Spirit! through the sense / By which thy inner nature was apprised / Of outward shows, vague dreams have rolled, / And varied reminiscences have waked / Tablets that never fade."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"But plant ideas like a printing-press; / Or, graven copper-plate, again to roll / The pristine stamp of proud Employer's Soul."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1817
One may "write the counsels of my heart" so "That they may be engrav'd on" another's heart
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817, 1818
"My mind became the book through which I grew / Wise in all human wisdom"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1817
"Not until my dream became / Like a child's legend on the tideless sand. / Which the first foam erases half, and half / Leaves legible"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1817, 1818
"Look on your mind--it is the book of fate-- / Ah! it is dark with many a blazoned name / Of misery--all are mirrors of the same"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)