Date: 1684
"In that white Snow which overspreads your skin, / We trace ye whiter Soul which dwells within."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1687
"My Passions rule, long since my Reason dyde"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
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: 1705
"[W]e all, by Just Experience, find / Content is only seated in the Mind"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1706
"There glides the moon her shining way, / And shoots my heart thro' with a silver ray."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"Our Heart, that flinty stubborn thing, / That Terrors cannot move, / That fears no threatenings of his Wrath, / Shall be dissolv'd by Love."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"There [in a softer mind] shall his sacred spirit dwell, / And deep engrave his law, / And every motion of our souls / To swift obedience draw."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1715
There may be "one Spark of Pity left behind / To form the least Impression on your Mind"
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1715
"He Steels his Heart, unknowing to repent"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)