Date: w. 1763, 1776
"By mercy prompted his correcting hand / Inflicts the stroke of salutary pain, / To check tyrannic Passions's wild demand, / And free our Reason from it's slavish chain."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1777
"The greedy Creditor, whose flinty breast / The iron hand of Avarice hath press'd, / Who never own'd Humanity's soft claim"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1777
"Where dwells the soul against Compassion steel'd, / Or who disdains the generous tear to yield?"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1778
The "pure flame" of virtue is planted "by an unerring rule" and glows in the heart
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778
"Still our joys are not complete, / Doubts and fears our minds invading / Till your gentle smiles we meet"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1778
"And if, O love, thy potent dart / Should reach the sleeping shepherd's heart, / O! be to him a gentler guest, / And pierce, with lighter shaft, his breast."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1780
"I call not you!--for, oh, your callous bosoms / Fell Dissipation steels, and robs your minds / Of the sweet energies bestow'd by Heaven."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"Ten thousand terrors now besieg'd her soul; / Ten thousand nothings, which her fancy drest / In colour, substance, circumstance, and form."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"Inspir'd thus by the Priest's heroic charge, / seem'd to press to be the earliest victim; / Their souls on fire, were eager to depart / The earthly sphere, and seise on their immortal crowns."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"This duty paid, a dawn, like that of peace, / By soft degrees illum'd the mourner's mind."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)