Date: 1809, 1812
One may "leave the friends of youthful years, / And mould [his] heart anew, to take the stamp / Of foreign friendships, in a foreign land"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1809, 1812
One may "mould [his] heart anew, to take the stamp / Of foreign friendships, in a foreign land"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: [1805?] 1810, 1812, 1818
"Where bloody Butler's iron-hearted crew, / Doomed to the flames the weak submitting few"
preview | full record— Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813)
Date: 1830
"No idle whims, no vapours fill'd her brain, / But Prudence for her youthful guide she took, / And Goodness, which no earthly vice could stain, / Dwelt in her mind; she was ne proud I ween or vain."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1859
" Not all this world's gay hopes, nor present charms, / Nor parents tears, nor a fond husband's arms, / Could stamp the least impression on her mind, / Or fix to earth a soul for heav'n design'd."
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1859
"(For sure thy sire had not a heart of steel)"
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1891
"So those high orthodoxies came to be / Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion, / And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea, / And drifted, holden by no wise dominion."
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Date: 1891
"In him there was a faith serene and strong, / In me an unrest, like the rush of water"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Date: 1891
"Yet in his stern creed lay a tender heart, / The husk o'erlaid a wealth of human kindness / And love, that fain their wisdom would impart / To purge the young soul of its earthly blindness"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Date: 1891
"And it did store the mind with furniture -- / In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber, / But morticed well, and fashioned to endure, / Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)