Date: 1731
"Cruelly kind, press inward, on my Heart; / But fright not Reason, cling not to my Thought, / Blot, blot Remembrance out, strike Home, at Life, / Pour, all at once, Oblivion on my Soul, / And quench me, into Quiet."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Afflictions such as hers are prying, and lend those Eyes that read the Soul."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1755
"When Love's once united, no Tyrant shall part / Nor can time efface what is grav'd on my heart."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)
Date: 1755
"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1761
"But now proceed; / Give me more names; these many I have wrote / Deep in the vengeful tablets of my heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1761
"Injurious woman, / Wou'd that men's thoughts were graven on their hearts!"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1762
"Had the proud exile read my heart, / He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd, / He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1785
"I own thy image is engraven on my heart."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)