Date: 1728
"Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine? / Can we dig peace or wisdom from the mine?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1752
"The Man, who sharpen'd first the warlike Steel, / How fell and deadly was his iron Heart"
preview | full record— Hammond, James (1710-1742)
Date: 1764, 1773
"Beyond the frantic rage / Of conq'ring heroes brave, the female mind, / When steel'd by love, in love's most horrid way / Beholds not danger, or beholding scorns"
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1795
"Lady Ruby is the loadstone that draws away every particle of steel that shou'd fortify my heart, and leaves it weaker than a woman's tear."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"With tears of sorrow incessant she labourd the food of Orc / Compelld by the iron hearted sisters Daughters of Urizen"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"Weeping at the threshold of Existence I will steel my heart / Against thee to Eternity & never recieve thee more"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)