Date: 1786
One may steal "The gem of truth from his unguarded soul"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1787-1818
"The countless gold of a merry heart / The rubies & pearls of a loving eye / The indolent never can bring to the mart / Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1787-1818
"You say reserve & modesty he has / Whose heart is iron his head wood & his face brass."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1787
"Whate'er pursuits the attentive mind employ / Must mark our manners with a strong alloy"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"For scenes that frequent shapes of Death impart / Arm the firm breast, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"To curse the hearts that selfish maxims steel, / And execrate the effects of patriot zeal.--"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"But when by various wrongs your bosom's steel'd, / Your groaning country calling to the field, / And 'twixt the foe and you the uncertain scale / Of fight must shew whose fortune shall prevail"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1788
"Strong Genius, from whose forge of thought / Forms rise, to quick perfection wrought"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1780, 1788
"Authority! unfeeling power, / Whose iron heart can coldly doom / The Debtor, dragg'd from Pleasure's bower, / To sicken in the dungeon's gloom."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1788
"So have I heard / The captive finch, in narrow cage confin'd, / Charm all his woe away with cheerful song, / Which might have melted e'en a heart of steel / To give him liberty"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)