Date: 1803
Genius may "Add novel tints to fancy's rainbow dress."
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: w. c. 1800-1807, 1866
"Joy & Woe are woven fine / A Clothing for the soul divine / Under every grief & pine / Runs a joy with silken twine"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1816
"I stood / Among them, but not of them--in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, / Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1820
"She stood: he pass'd, shut up in mysteries, / His mind wrapp'd like his mantle."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1837
"As these white robes are soil'd and dark, / To yonder shining ground; / As this pale taper's earthly spark, / To yonder argent round; / So shows my soul before the Lamb, / My spirit before Thee; / So in mine earthly house I am, / To that I hope to be."
preview | full record— Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)