Date: 1684
A captive heart may wear a beloved's chain
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
One may be as great a Conqueror as Caesar, "Who couldst by milder ways all Hearts subdue, / The nobler Conquest of the two"
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1685
"Victorious Reason" may "afford / A Nobler Conquest then the Sword"
preview | full record— Philips, John (1676-1709)
Date: 1686
"But now Within there's Civil War, / In Arms my rebel Passions are, / Their old Allegiance laid aside"
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1687
Cupids in air y forms do move and conspire "conquering ev'ry Heart, or setting it on Fire"
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1687
"So crowds of anxious Thoughts on ev'ry side, / Invade my Soul."
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"At this enrag'd, the injur'd Deity / Chose out the best of his Artillery, / And in a blooming Virgin's Dove-like Eyes / He planted his Victorious Batteries; / (Phillis her Name, the best of Woman-kind, / Could Love have gain'd the Empire of her Mind) / These shot so furiously against my Heart, /...
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1687
"The wing'd Battalions from her lovely face / Flew to the Breach, and, rushing in apace, / Did quickly make her Mistress of the place [the heart]."
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1663-1689
"Our hearts weak forts we must resign / When beauty does its forces join / With man's strong enemy, good wine."
preview | full record— Sackville, Charles, sixth earl of Dorset and first earl of Middlesex (1643-1706)
Date: 1689
"She's fair enough, only she wants the art / To set her Beauties off as they can doe, / And that's the cause she ne'er heard any woo, / Nor ever yet made conquest of a heart."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)