Date: 1740
"Be I, O Thou my better part, / A seal impress'd upon Thy heart:"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1741
"But self-conceitedness does reign / In every mortal mind."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1742
"He binds my Name upon his Arm, / And seals it on his Heart."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1742
"No more shall trickling Sorrows roll / Thro' those dear Windows of his Soul."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1748
"the Persian Bands / In fearful Wonder ask; What God unseen / Such Pow'r bestow'd, and steel'd a Woman's Heart"
preview | full record— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)
Date: 1753
"By steel may bodies be confin'd, / But love, my Orra, chains the mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: w. 1737-1742, published 1755, 1764, 1773
"And the more I with study my fancy refin'd, / The deeper impression she made on my mind."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1756
"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1759
"Then wilt Thou [God] in the saints reside, / And make their hearts Thy throne."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1760, 1850
An "anxious tender air / Proves o'er her heart the conquest won"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)