Date: 1812
"Reason, through anguish, shall her throne forsake, / And strength of mind but stronger madness make."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1813
"O Spirit! through the sense / By which thy inner nature was apprised / Of outward shows, vague dreams have rolled, / And varied reminiscences have waked / Tablets that never fade."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1814
"Give me to send the laughing bowl around, / My soul in Bacchus' pleasing fetters bound."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1814
"Thus does the brain awhile conceive, / Its brilliant fancies, and believe;-- / And oh! those glowing hopes remain / A dazzling, yet deceitful train;-- / And many a liken'd image find, / Upon the mirror of the mind"
preview | full record— Reynolds, John Hamilton (1796-1852)
Date: 1814
"So when the breeze of life is felt / To ruffle, how those fancies melt; / And real woe,--ideal rest, / Flutter uncertain in the breast."
preview | full record— Reynolds, John Hamilton (1796-1852)
Date: 1814
"There is a war, a chaos of the mind, / When all its elements convulsed, combined / Lie dark and jarring with perturbéd force, / And gnashing with impenitent Remorse"
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1814
"All, in a word, from which all eyes must start, / That opening sepulchre, the naked heart / Bares with its buried woes--till Pride awake, / To snatch the mirror from the soul, and break."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1814
"No single passion, and no ruling thought / That leaves the rest, as once, unseen, unsought, / But the wild prospect when the Soul reviews, / All rushing through their thousand avenues"
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)