Date: 1762
"Pure from th' eternal Source of Being came / That Ray divine that lights the human Frame: / Yet oft, forgetful of it's heavenly Birth, / It sinks obscur'd beneath the Weight of the Earth: / Mechanic Pow'rs retard it's Flight, and hence / The Storms of Passion, and the Clouds of Sense: / 'Tis Lif...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1766
"These are the marks which heav'n itself design'd, / The sterling standards of the human mind"
preview | full record— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)
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: 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
"Forgive the frenzy of a heart unsteel'd / By disappointment's shocks."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1785
"Thus rust the Mind's best powers."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"Love was ever the touchstone to try the fine mind, / Sterling Virtue 'twill never debase; / No alloy can we know, from a passion refin'd,"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"Virtue sleeps / While all the finest faculties of mind / Rust, like the iron long unus'd"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1788
"When the sharp iron wounds his inmost soul, / And his strain'd eyes in burning anguish roll; / Will the parch'd negro find, ere he expire, / No pain in hunger, and no heat in fire?"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)