Date: 1796
"Too well, fair youth! thy lib'ral heart he knew; / A heart to Nature's warm impressions true!"
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
"These upheld the soul, / As ribb'd with triple steel"
preview | full record— Bruce, Michael (1746-1767)
Date: 1796
"E'en they th' impressive dart of love can feel, / Whose stubborn souls are sheath'd in triple steel."
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1796
"Reason's dying lamp / Scarce brighter burns than instinct in their breast"
preview | full record— Bruce, Michael (1746-1767)
Date: 1799
"And, in the waveless mirror of his mind, / Views the fleet years of pleasure left behind, / Since Anna's empire o'er his heart began!"
preview | full record— Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)
Date: 1799
In Fancy's "filial train," inspiration rides foremost and "Myriads of spruce ideas crowd the rear."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1801
Virtue may be a man's "eternal flame" or "ruling passion"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1804, 1807
"Their souls shall reach the Sabbath of the skies;-- / As birds, from bleak Norwegia's wintry coast / Blown out to sea, strive to regain the shore, / But, vainly striving; yield them to the blast,-- / Swept o'er the deep to Albion's genial isle, / Amazed they light amid the bloomy sprays / Of som...
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1805
"Touched with my care, my tyrant may prove kind, / Nor let that form conceal an iron mind."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1805
"The Saxon saw, advanced, nor looked behind, / Fate hurried on, and courage steel'd his mind."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)