Date: 1766
"Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia."
preview | full record— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Date: March 5, 1772
"True worth alone can form the charm that binds, / And rivet beauty's chains upon the mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1779
"Banish'd--robb'd of my country, and my name; / Yet they have left a mind defies their vengeance-- / Which, though these limbs were lock'd in bolts of steel, / And darkness wrapt these precious founts of light, / Would rise superior to their bounded power, / And scorn alike their fetters, and the...
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1792
"Yes, she has a thousand charms, and my heart is already in her chains."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1792
"Thou wife of Orloff! thou hast my soul in chains--drag it not to perdition!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1792
"My ardent passions I could hold in chains, and suppress that love which honor could not sanction."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1796, 1806
"Ambition!--not that emulative zeal Which wings the tow'ring souls of godlike men! / But bold, oppressive, self-created pow'r, / That, trampling o'er the barrier of the laws, / And scattering wide the tender shoots of pity, / Strikes at the root of reason, and confines / Nature itself in bondage!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1798
"My mother I have never seen--never by affection's ties has she chained my soul to her's!"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"They have their reward; it was born with them: a free, a noble heart, which no chains can confine, which amid all the horrors of imprisonment is still free."
preview | full record— Lawrence, Rose (fl. 1799)
Date: 1799
"And by him is our union also sanctioned!--love too first chained our hearts together, and nature drew the bond more closely."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)