Date: 1868
God's "coming from above" may stamp his image on one's heart
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: April 26 1870
"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps / Of doubt and horror,—what to say / Or think,—this awful secret sway, / The potter's power over the clay!"
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: April 26 1870
"Between the threads fine fumes arise / And shape their pictures in the brain."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: 1874
"Earth thus I stamp thy bosom rouse the earthquake from his den"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1907
"Could I but think, on this same day, / She would with some Contrition pray, / That never she again would take / A Captive Heart or Conquest make."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1931
"My Waxen heart, when near the Flame, / Yields to th' imprinted mould" but "hardens in the Cold"
preview | full record— Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)
Date: 1936
"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1937
"Figure on her waxen mind / Images of life refin'd."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1940
"The provinces of his body revolted, / The squares of his mind were empty, / Silence invaded the suburbs, / The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1953
"Should poets bicycle-pump the human heart / Or squash it flat?"
preview | full record— Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995)