Date: February, 1798
"And what (I said) tho' blasphemy's loud scream / With that sweet music of deliv'rance strove; / Tho' all the fierce and drunken passions wove / A dance more wild than ever maniac's dream; / Ye storms, that round the dawning east assembled, / The sun was rising, tho' ye hid his light!"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Some turbulent Othello's vainly try / To curb the green-eyed monster Jealousy."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"The government of Head and Heart soon chang'd, / All former plans of thinking were derang'd; / Cupid's fond garrison was put to route, / Hypothesis march'd in, and Love march'd out."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Thou Friendship art the most exalted guest, / The noblest inmate of the human breast!"
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1799
In Fancy's "filial train," inspiration rides foremost and "Myriads of spruce ideas crowd the rear."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1803
"Ah, how the human mind wearies herself / With her own wanderings, and, involved in gloom / Impenetrable, speculates amiss!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1803
"Twin-brother of the goddess born from Jove, / He dwells not in his father's mind, but, though / Of common nature with ourselves, exists / Apart, and occupies a local home."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1804
"Still I perceive thee, in my heart enshrin'd, / Its guardian idol, and its favourite guest."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1805
"Alas! when ev'ry Muse is fled, / How wretched He who writes for bread! / Who, when the joyous years are flown, / And Reason totters on her throne, / And Fancy fails, and Nature tires, / And Fame herself no more inspires, / And ev'n the sweet return of Spring / No more can make the Poet sing, / T...
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: April 1806
"Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! / Oh, come, and make thy downy nest / Once more on his sad heart!"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)