Date: 1817
"Nor should we pass the secret cell, / Where lonely Science loves to dwell, / Pleas'd, from its lamp, to cast the ray / That lights the mind's beclouded day."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"On this scroll thou seest written in characters fair / A sun-beamy tale of a wreath, and a chain; / And, warrior, it nurtures the property rare / Of charming my mind from the trammels of pain."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1818
The faithful bless the Lord's "empire o'er the willing soul"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1823
"[I]n the virtuous heart is fix'd [Love's] lasting throne"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1823
The prize of conquered hearts may repay pain
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1823
"On either side, and all around, engrav'd / Were mystic symbols seen of free-born hearts enslav'd"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1823
A sublime power rules the will "And stamps His precepts on the conscious breast"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1826
"Her Heart was Judge, & could the difference trace / Between the Jocky-Air and real Grace, / Between the Lad, who was allowed to ride, / And show his Hunters at his Landlord's Side, / And One, who thought not that he should aspire / Beyond his Rank by riding with the Squire."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1826
"Then with a Warmth of Language, which He thought / Must on a Heart of Steel or Stone have wrought, / He prest his Suit"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)