Date: w. 1788, 1810

"Thee, Bard morose, / Churlish amid thy fancy's golden stores, / Thee will I teach, censorious as thou art, / What is not Virtue."

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: w. October, 1796; 1810

"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

"Soul-chearing rays" may be eclipsed

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

Images may invade [the mind?]

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

One may hie "From his own blank inanity"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

"[Y]et much the Poet found, / To swell Imagination's golden store, / On Arno's bank"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

"Come, bright IMAGINATION, come! relume / Thy orient lamp; with recompensing ray / Shine on the Mind, and pierce its gathering gloom / With all the fires of intellectual Day!"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

Pleasures past "glow sublime" in Memory's "crystal prism" and "Beam on the gloom'd and disappointed Mind"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

"High themes the rapt concent'ring Thoughts explore, / Freed from external Pleasure's glittering chain."

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1807, 1810

Genius may give an actor "despotic empire o'er the heart"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)