Date: 1680
"Our charmed Eyes, O had you never cloy'd, / Our Palate tickled, or we still enjoy'd / That pleasant prospect, this Soul-raping Guest, / That Royal fare, we had been always Blest."
preview | full record— Livingstone, Michael (fl. 1680)
Date: 1681
"For thou alone to people me, / Art grown a num'rous Colony; / And a Collection choicer far / Then or White-hall's, or Mantua's were."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1682
"A Crowd of Vertues fill your Princely Breast."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1683
"That once Experience would but cross the Jest, / And prove the highest Chamber furnisht best. / For Knowledge (Nature's guide) should quarter there, / And Judgment, her most trusty Councellour."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"But for such Guests [Invention, Memory, and Wit] I have no fitting Room; / Or if I had, I've no such Guests to come."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"The Soul (that bright coelestial Guest) / Altho eternal, seeks for rest."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1684
"My grateful Thoughts so throng to get abroad, / They over-run each other in the crowd: / To you with hasty flight they take their way, / And hardly for the dress of words will stay."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"Soft-panting Heart: scarce knows what Fonder Guest / Might steal that way into her Virgin-Brest."
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684
"When holy Trances first inspire his Breast, / And the God enters there to be a Guest."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"Love only in their stead took up its Rest; / Nature made that thy constant Guest, / And seem'd to form no other Passion for thy Breast."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)