Date: 1796
"The chains of care fall off my pensive mind, / When through the winds your spirit hails me."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1798
"He sticks to his text I find; for he always begins his sermons by telling me what fine things I could do, if I would but give my soul elbow room"
preview | full record— Brand, Hannah (d. 1821); Philippe Héricault Destouches (1680-1754)
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: 1808
A woman may stretch "her blameless empire o'er the heart."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"She'd touch the callous mind, unus'd to feel, / With savage virtue, and the lawless zeal"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
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
"Yet our souls are so crusted with housewifely moss, / That Fancy's bright furnace yields nothing but dross:"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)