Date: 1683
"Reason at last, by her all-conquering arts, / Reduced these savages, and tuned their hearts."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1684
A "charming Voice, and Art" may gain "the conquest of my Heart
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1685
Eternal troubles may haunt an anxious mind
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
"Sure he, who first the passage tried, / In hardened oak his heart did hide, / And ribs of iron armed his side;"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700); Horace (65 B.C. - 8 B.C.)
Date: 1685
"These bugbears of the mind, this inward hell, / No rays of outward sunshine can dispel; / But nature and right reason must display / Their beams abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1684 [1685]
"Would I could coin my very heart to gold!"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1686, 1712
"See how my melting Passions hast and run, / Like Virgin-wax before the scorching Sun!"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1712
"But while confin'd to this dark Cell I lie, / My captive Soul can't reach its native Sky"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1712
"Here, even my Will's a slave to Passions made, / Passions which have its Liberty betray'd."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1712
One may be " to a narrow Dungeon confin'd, / A Cave that darkens and restrains [the] Mind"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)