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: 1823
"Retire: but look into your past impression! / And you will find, though shuddering at the mirror / Of your own thoughts, in all their self confession, / The lurking bias, be it truth or error, / To the unknown."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1823
"'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, / Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: November 1824
"Shall human reason frame a rule to draw / Before its puny court the cognizance / Of a Divine eternal ordinance / With warrants of its own?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1824
"'I rose; and, bending at her sweet command, / Touched with faint lips the cup she raised, / And suddenly my brain became as sand / 'Where the first wave had more than half erased / The track of deer on desert Labrador; / Whilst the wolf, from which they fled amazed, / 'Leaves his stamp visibly u...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1824
"What if thy deep and ample stream should be / A mirror of my heart, where she may read / The thousand thoughts I now betray to thee"
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1824
"The thousand thoughts I now betray to thee, / Wild as thy wave, and headlong as thy speed"
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1824
"What do I say--a mirror of my heart? / Are not thy waters sweeping, dark, and strong? / Such as my feelings were and are, thou art; / And such as thou art were my passions long."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1824
"And in my wisdom are the orbs of Heaven / Written as in a record"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)