Date: 1765
"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: February 15, 1776
"The happiness of love, the felicities that flow from a suitable union, his heart shall be a stranger to"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1778
"And if, O love, thy potent dart / Should reach the sleeping shepherd's heart, / O! be to him a gentler guest, / And pierce, with lighter shaft, his breast."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1779
"Such pensiveness oft follows, when the mind, / Surcharg'd with joy, hath yielded all her pow'rs / To the insidious guest."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)