Date: 1791
"He spake, and at his words grief like a cloud / Involved the mind of Hector dark around"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
The sight of someone may raise a tempest in the mind
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1796, 1817
"Full many a thought uncall'd and undetain'd, / And many idle flitting phantasies, / Traverse my indolent and passive brain, / As wild and various as the random gales / That swell and flutter on this subject Lute!"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1796, 1817
"And what if all of animated nature / Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd, / That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps / Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, / At once the Soul of each, and God of all?"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Hail, happy dawn! thy glorious sun shall rise, / Beam on the dreary night of polar skies; / Chase the thick mists of ignorance away, / And on the darkest mind emit full day."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1801
A cloud may darkly over one's fancy play
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
"Some fickle creatures boast a soul / True as the needle to the pole; / Yet shifting, like the weather, / The needle's constancy forego / For any novelty, and show / Its variations rather."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: October 4, 1802
"Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth / A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud / Enveloping the Earth--"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1803
Genius may "separate the clouds by error spread, / Till all the gloom is vanquish'd, and the light / Of intellectual day wide-blazing streams"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)