Date: 1703
"Distorted Nature shakes at the Controul, / With strong Convulsions rends my strugling Soul; / Each vital String cracks with th' unequal Strife, / Departing Love racks like departing Life; / Yet there the Sorrow ceases with the Breath, / But Love each day renews th' torturing scene of Death."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1842
"Think'st thou fond memory will not bear / Thy image through the drowning tear? / The mind's eye then shall take the place, / And wander o'er thy much lov'd face."
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1999
"It occurred to me that there was not much difference between a real thing that existed in memory, and something that was born in the mind from the start."
preview | full record— Budnitz, Judy (b. 1973)