Date: 1700
"They cannot, no; each sigh Love's flight sustains, / O'er my own Heart in my own Breast he Reigns, / And holds too strong, my strugling Soul in Chains."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1700
"My Thoughts should like their Silver Fishes shine, / With quick, bright glitterings thro' each moving line."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1704
"To my warm Soul such deep Impression give,"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1704
"Mean while Medea, seiz'd with fierce Desire, / By Reason strives to quench the raging Fire; / But strives in vain!"
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: 1704
"Wretch, from thy Virgin-Breast this Flame expel, / And soon--Oh cou'd I, all wou'd then be well!"
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: 1704
"But Love, resistless Love my Soul invades; / Discretion this, Affection that perswades."
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"But most Alas by vain opinion lead / Ore the wild maze of erring passions tread."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"By turns a thousand inclinations rise / & each by turns as impotently dies."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"[I]f reason from the throne be gon / The madd affections bear their master on"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"His life proves restless & his labour vain / By hurrying after Phantomes of the brain."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)