Date: 1773
"The potent sounds like lightning dart / Resistless through the glowing heart"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1778
"Still our joys are not complete, / Doubts and fears our minds invading / Till your gentle smiles we meet"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1778
"And if, O love, thy potent dart / Should reach the sleeping shepherd's heart, / O! be to him a gentler guest, / And pierce, with lighter shaft, his breast."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1789, 1794
"In every cry of every Man / In every Infants cry of fear / In every voice; in every ban / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1791
"Fancy paints with hues unreal,/ Smile of bliss, and sorrow's mood."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
A fiend may set "reason up for judge / Of our most holy Mystery"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
" The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd / The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"In every voice: in every ban, / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1842
"I think thy breast is meade o' brass"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)