Date: 1783
"He carries windows / In that enlarged breast of his, that all / May see what's done within"
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Date: 1783
"The enemy fight in chains, invisible chains, but heavy; / Their minds are fetter'd; then how can they be free, / While, like the mounting flame, / We spring to battle o'er the floods of death?"
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Date: 1784
"No, Edwitha--you have a native dignity of mind incapable of degradation or alloy."
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Date: 1785
"I own thy image is engraven on my heart."
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Date: 1786
"But if (which Pow'rs above prevent) / That iron-hearted carl, Want, / Attended, in his grim advances, / By sad mistakes, and black mischances"
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Date: 1787-1818
"The countless gold of a merry heart / The rubies & pearls of a loving eye / The indolent never can bring to the mart / Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury"
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Date: w. 1787-1818
"You say reserve & modesty he has / Whose heart is iron his head wood & his face brass."
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Date: 1787
"Still crowding thoughts, a pensive train, / Rose in my soul"
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