Date: 1818
"But poetry makes these odds all even. It is the music of language, answering to the music of the mind, untying as it were 'the secret soul of harmony.'"
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1820
"A moment's thought is passion's passing bell"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1820
"Only a sense / Remains of them, like the omnipotence / Of music, when the inspired voice and lute / Languish, ere yet the responses are mute, / Which through the deep and labyrinthine soul, / Like echoes through long caverns, wind and roll."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
"The peaceful conscience is the boon / That keeps the jarring mind in tune"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)