Date: 1800, 1806
"He is young, / And yet the stamp of thought so tempers youth, / That all its fires are faded"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1800,1806
"Thrice he rose, and thrice / His feet recoil'd; and still the livid flame / Lengthen'd and quiver'd as the moaning wind / Pass'd thro' the rushy crevice, while his heart / Beat, like the death-watch, in his shudd'ring breast."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1800
"So the schemes / Rais'd by fond Hope in youth's unclouded morn, / While sanguine youth enjoys delusive dreams, / Experience withers; till scarce one remains / Flattering the languid heart, where only Reason reigns!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1801
"For ever on my soul engraved / His glowing cheek, his manly mien."
preview | full record— Sawyer, Ann (fl. 1794-1801)
Date: 1801
The urchin's mind may be like "a weedy garden wild"
preview | full record— Sawyer, Ann (fl. 1794-1801)
Date: 1803
"WHEN the awaken'd soul receives / The first impression fancy gives / Temper'd by soft affection's reign, / Sweet are the days of pleasing pain."
preview | full record— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)
Date: 1803
The muse "beams a visionary day: / Bright as the magic torch she early gave / To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave."
preview | full record— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)
Date: 1805
"To draw whose character exceeds my art, / I bear it deep engraven in my heart; / Yet this one print drawn out, I'll dare to say / Phoebus himself can scarce the whole display"
preview | full record— Blount [née Guise], Annabella (fl. 1700-741)
Date: 1806
"On a shelf, / (Yclept a mantle-piece) a phial stands, / Half fill'd with potent spirits!--haunt the poet's restless brain, / And fill his mind with fancies whimsical."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
The fancy may be sick (and borne on a grey goose wing to immortal fame)
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)