Date: April 26 1870
"You'd not believe by what strange roads / Thought travels, when your beauty goads / A man to-night to think of toads."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: April 26 1870
"Between the threads fine fumes arise / And shape their pictures in the brain."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: 1876
"'The enchantment works,' thought Merlin; 'this will do;/ I think the image on his soul is painted;' / And then the mirror suddenly withdrew"
preview | full record— Moultrie, John (1799-1874)
Date: 1891
"So those high orthodoxies came to be / Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion, / And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea, / And drifted, holden by no wise dominion."
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Date: 1891
"In him there was a faith serene and strong, / In me an unrest, like the rush of water"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Date: 1891
"Yet in his stern creed lay a tender heart, / The husk o'erlaid a wealth of human kindness / And love, that fain their wisdom would impart / To purge the young soul of its earthly blindness"
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Date: 1891
"And it did store the mind with furniture -- / In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber, / But morticed well, and fashioned to endure, / Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber"
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Date: 1900
"Then from this hour deep on my heart engraved / Be all my duty needful."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)