Date: w. c. 1800-1807, 1866
"The Questioner who sits so sly / Shall never know how to Reply / He who replies to words of Doubt / Doth put the Light of Knowledge out"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. c. 1800-1807, 1866
"We are led to Believe a Lie / When we see not Thro the Eye / Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night / When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light / God Appears & God is Light / To those poor Souls who dwell in Night / But does a Human Form Display / To those who Dwell in Realms of day"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1804
"Thro' Error's maze, thro' Folly's night, / The lamp of Reason lends me light"
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1805
"And Thou, Minerva, pr'ythee say, / Why with so bright a mental ray, / And all that marks the blue-ey'd Maid, / Hast thou this favour'd Boy array'd?"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1806
"Tho' party-zeal inflam'd his iron heart, / And prejudice sharp pointed ev'ry dart; / With glowing thoughts, his mind profusely teem'd."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1807
"Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1810
"Reason holds her lamp no more; / Save that sometimes, with glimmering light, / She gives thy misery to thy sight"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: w. 1796, 1811
"Truths to describe, which clearly to explain / Reason's dim lamp has burnt for centuries in vain."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1811, 1812
"The soul, a cheering lamp, the scene illumes, / Fed with the splendour of ethereal rays, / And bright'ning still, as still the frame decays"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Yet Wit, and Wisdom, Folly's shame to shun, / Will say 'tis heavenly Moonshine, not the Sun-- / Not suffer Pride to praise its feeble glow, / Beyond Heav'n's brighter beams which blaze below; / But like a Lamp, or Candle, keep its place, / To light Man's Mind with Truths of terrene Race."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)