Date: 1682
One gaze and the leave "behind a conquered Heart"
preview | full record— Coppinger, Matthew (fl. 1682)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1693
"But thou, my Dear, hast found the only Art, / At once to Conquer and Enjoy my Heart"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1702
'Tis Lust, (not Love) and Reason, that are Foes
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"But there is one soft Minute, when the Mind / Is left unguarded," during which "the wise Lover understanding right, /Steals in like Day upon the Wings of Light."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1743
"My soul is more than conqueror, / And strong in strength invincible."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1747
"Love only could conquer so stubborn an heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1747
Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1766
"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)