Date: 1747
"Since here defective, Heaven be so kind / With never-fading charms to dress my mind"
preview | full record— Teft, Elizabeth (fl. 1741-7)
Date: 1748
"But how will this dismantled soul appear,/ When stripped of all it lately held so dear,/ Forced from its prison of expiring clay, / Afraid and shivering at the doubtful way?"
preview | full record— Leapor, Mary (1722-1746)
Date: 1752
"To charm his reason dress your mind, / Till love shall be with friendship joined."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1755
"But, must the Soul, uncloth'd and cold, / Appear, her Maker to behold? / Or shall the gaping Grave restore, / The Robe of Flesh which once she wore?"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1758
"Check not the flow of sweet fraternal love, / By Heav'n's high King in bounty giv'n, / Thy stubborn heart to soften and improve, / Thy earth-clad spirit to refine, / And gradual raise to love divine, / And wing its soaring flight to Heav'n!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
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: 1789
"For of calamity so long the prey, / Imagination now has lost her powers, / Nor will her fairy loom again essay / To dress affliction in a robe of flowers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)