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Date: 1773
"Winter austere forbids me to aspire, / And northern tempests damp the rising fire; / They chill the tides of Fancy's flowing sea, / Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay."
preview | full record— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753–1784)
Date: 1774
"We live, alas! where the bright god of day, / Full from the zenith whirls his torrid ray: / Beneath the rage of his consuming fires, / All fancy melts, all eloquence expires."
preview | full record— Williams, Francis (c.1697-1762)
