Date: 1754
There may be sunshine in the breast
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755
"His wav'ring mind is in a whirlwind tost."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)
Date: 1762, 1781
"SUFFOLK's Daughter sinks not with her Woe: / Beneath it's Weight I feel myself resign'd; / Tho' strong the Tempest, stronger still my Mind."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: September 1762; 1774
"And every Moralist will find / A ruling passion in the mind: / Which, tho' pent up and barricado'd / Like winds, where Æolus bravado'd; / Like them, will sally from their den, / And raise a tempest now and then; / Unhinge dame Prudence from her plan, / And ruffle all the world of man."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: 1762
"I cannot reach that heavenly shore, / The gusts of passion rise / So fierce, so high the billows roll, / And on this long afflicted soul / So huge a tempest lies"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1764
"From every speck which hangs upon the sight / Purge my mind's eye, nor let one cloud remain / To spread the shades of error o'er my brain),"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1765, 1770
"On Life's rough sea by stormy passions tost, / Freedom and Virtue were together lost."
preview | full record— Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816)
Date: 1766
Melancholy may "cloud the sunshine of my chearful breast"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"Her tuneful tongue with eloquence and ease, / The golden merchandize of thought conveys; / Brisk fancy wafts it with her sprightly gales, / While judgment ballasts all the swelling sails."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)