Date: 1806
"But when thy true poetic lays, / Pierce to the Heart's remotest cell; / We feel the conscious innate praise"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1808
"Secure, his adamantine heart / In learning's musty cell / Repell'd poor Cupid's powerful dart, / And slighted every belle"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"In panoply of lead and brass / Their cautious hearts unfold, / Which beauty cannot pierce, alas! / Unless with darts of gold!"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"The soft harp's many-sounding strings, / Wak'd by the blushing maid, / Could melt the iron hearts of kings, / And beauty's influence aid"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"'But when the Bard by Arun's stream / Indulg'd each sadly tender theme, / And with enchantment wild combin'd / The countless "shadowy tribes of mind;'"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1810
"And let thy rage, with fancied wrongs insane, / Steel every thought with Delia's proud disdain"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1842
"Think'st thou fond memory will not bear / Thy image through the drowning tear? / The mind's eye then shall take the place, / And wander o'er thy much lov'd face."
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)