Date: 1693
"For should I let these Thoughts but rove / They'd fix upon Tyrannick Love."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1693
Thoughts may "transcend all the Bounds of Air, / And like a blazing Comet ... inflame my Sphere."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1720
"His Fancy still awake; the roving Guest / Usurps the Throne of Reason in his Breast: / Forms great Ideas, and religious Schemes, / A busy mime, and floats in golden Dreams."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1727, 1739
"My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest [Love], / Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1776
"Oft let remembrance sooth his mind / With dreams of former days, / When in the lap of Peace reclined / He framed his infant lays; / When Fancy roved at large, nor Care / Nor cold Distrust alarm'd, / Nor Envy with malignant glare / His simple youth had harm'd."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)