Date: 1661
"These are but objects at a distance, these / Are but refreshments, and to give you ease, / To make thy Way the sweeter, till thou art / Hid in the Closet of Sophia's Heart."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this attracting Face our Pilgrim throws / His eyes, his Soul thorow those windows goes"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1685
"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: / Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, / As they draw near to their eternal home"
preview | full record— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Date: 1696
"Poor thredbare Vertue ne'er admir'd in Court. / But seeks its Refuge in an honest Mind, / There it securely dwells, / Like Anchorets in Cells / Where no Ambition nor wild Lust resorts."
preview | full record— Tutchin, John (1661-1707)
Date: 1700
"August and Open, as the Hero's Mind, / Be her capacious Courts design'd."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1703, 1718
Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1710
"The Saints began with all their art, / To vouch their Zeal to Q*****n, and Court, / In such Addresses as might best / Open the Windows of their Breast, / That Sacred Majesty might see / Their Ancient Love and Loyalty"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1712, 1796
"Her body delicate, wherein enshrin'd, / As in its temple, dwelt a virtuous mind."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)