Date: 1702
"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind, / Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd; / But triumphs still, impatient of Controul, / O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"The Vices common to her Sex, can find / No room, e'en in the Suburbs of her Mind."
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Date: 1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
"Thy Paradise, thro' whose fair Hills of Joy / Those Springs of everlasting Vigor range, / Which make Souls drunk with Heav'n, which cleanse away / All Earth from Dust, and Flesh to Spirit change."
preview | full record— Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
Date: 1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
"My Soul untun'd, unstrung, doth wait on Thee / To teach her how to sing thy MYSTERY."
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Date: 1706, 1709
"O 'tis a Thought would melt a Rock, / And make a Heart of Iron move."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706, 1709
"COME let me Love: or is my Mind / Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?"
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Date: 1706, 1709
"But let thine Image ever dwell / Stampt as a Seal upon my Heart."
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Date: 1707
"'O let my Name ingraven stand, / 'Both on thy Heart and on thy Hand."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"Then let thy Name be well imprest / As a fair Signet on my Breast."
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Date: 1707
"Why should we vex and grieve his love, / Who seals our souls to heavenly life?"
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