Date: 1609
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past, / I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, / And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste"
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1635
"Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, / But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1687
"My Passions rule, long since my Reason dyde"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1804
The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1804
"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1804
One may part "Ere love had held long empire in his heart"
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)