Date: 1788
"Shall I trust the thoughts that rise / And struggle in my panting breast, / Tinted with a thousand dyes, / Image quick on image prest"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1788
"I feel the swelling raptures roll / In surging tides upon my soul"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1788
" My panting soul is all on fire"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1788
"Seize! seize! the glowing images that pass / Like transient shadows o'er the mimic glass!"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1788
"But still the vigour of my soul I keep, / And its keen anger burst the bonds of sleep."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1788, 1803
"Oh! may good angels, kindling in thy breast / The lamp of reason, guard thee from their snares!"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1788
"When sovereign Reason from her throne is hurl'd, / And with her all the subject senses whirl'd, / From sweet HUMANITY, the nurse of grief, / Even thy deep woes, O Phrenzy! find relief."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1788
Humanity "Assists thy roving fancy in its flight, / To crown thy airy sallies with delight."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1788
"An healing balm to thy warp'd sense she brings, / Till from her softness magic comfort springs, / And joys which reason with a frown denies, / Her tender pity with a smile supplies."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1788
"Ah! think not, WHITE, the Muse from fancy brings / Those woes, for Hist'ry sanctions what she sings, / Her bloody Annals still does Truth unfold, / Stain'd with the victims of soul-spotting gold."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)