Date: 1797
"Still shall the plaintive lyre essay its powers / To dress the cave of Care with Fancy's flowers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: w. September 1794, 1797
"Wit, that no suffering could impair, / Was thine, and thine whose mental powers / Of force to chase the fiends that tear / From Fancy's hands her budding flowers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1799, 1806
Gold "tipp'st the leaves of fancy's fairest flow'r / With glitt'ring drops: it feels the numbing spell / Creep through each fibre slow; while ev'ry ill / Of sordid mis'ry blossoms to devour"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1800
"So the schemes / Rais'd by fond Hope in youth's unclouded morn, / While sanguine youth enjoys delusive dreams, / Experience withers; till scarce one remains / Flattering the languid heart, where only Reason reigns!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1814
"The mind of a child is like the acorn; its powers are folded up, they do not yet appear, but they are all there."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1814
"Instruction is the food of the mind; it is like the dew and the rain and the rich soil."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"Is there whose hours / Of still domestic leisure breathe the soul / Of friendship, peace, and elegant delight / Beneath poetic shades, where leads the Muse / Through walks of fragrance, and the fairy groves / Where young ideas blossom?"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)