Date: 1812
"On Captain Bligh her mind in balance hung-- / Though valiant, modest; and reserved, though young/ Against these merits must defects be set-- / Though poor, imprudent; and though proud, in debt"
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Date: 1812
Reason may rule us in her proper place
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Date: 1812
"Reason, through anguish, shall her throne forsake, / And strength of mind but stronger madness make."
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Date: 1815?
"Strait to her chamber, yester-eve, / Had she retreated from the cave, / And, wildering in a maze of thought, / Fear'd every hour with danger fraught"
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Date: 1816
"Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art / Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1819
The master-passion is not always obeyed
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Date: 1819
Reason may "re-ascend her throne" after a burst of "salutary tears"
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Date: 1819
The "war within, these passions in their strife, / If thus protracted, had exhausted life"
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