Date: 1789
"I bid the traitor Love, adieu! / Who to this fond, believing bosom came, / A guest insidious and untrue, / With Pity's soothing voice--in Friendship's name."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1789
"Alas! these joys are mine in dreams alone, / When cruel Reason abdicates her throne!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1790
"There is a midnight in the breast / No morn shall ever cheer."
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Date: 1790
The mind holds "each parted form," "like the after-echoing" of a storm
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Date: 1790
Pleasing scenes may remain in the bosom, like "moons who do their watches run with the reflected brightness of the sun"
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Date: 1790, 1806
"Proud may he be who nobly acts his part, / Who boasts the empire of each subject's heart."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1791
"In the rich realms of polished taste, / Where judgment penetrates to find / The treasures of the unwrought mind, / Where conversation's ardent spirit / Refines from dross the ore of merit, / Where emulation aids the flame / And stamps the sterling bust of fame."
preview | full record— West, Jane (1758-1852)
Date: 1791
"These modern Sapphos are conceited creatures, / They sport their thoughts as others do their features; / These but coquette it with a different part, / And seize the head, while others charm the heart."
preview | full record— Falconar, Maria (b. 1771-) and Harriet (b. 1774-)
Date: 1791
"Each vice, to minds depraved by bondage known, / With sure contagion fastens on his own."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1791
"[I]mpetuous Passion's flame" may be blown to rage
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)