Date: 1610
"How happy is he, which hath due place assigned / To his beasts, and disafforested his mind."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1612
"Another part became the well of sense, / The tender well-arm'd feeling brain, from whence / Those sinewy strings, which do our bodies tie, / Are ravelled out, and fast there by one end, / Did this soul limbs, these limbs a soul attend."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1633
"If they be two, they are two so / As stiffe twin compasses are two, / Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show / To move, but doth, if the'other doe."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1635
"Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, / But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1661
"Then is the Soul fit to be wrought upon, / And to receive Heav'ns seal's impression."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"The Microcosm, little world, or Man, / Containeth all the outward great world can."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1681
"That, for all furniture, you'l find / Only your Picture in my Mind."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1682
"Great Prince, th' Almighty has to you been kind, / Stamp'd Graces on your Body and your mind."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"From him his Son true Loyalty understood, / Imprest on's Soul, seal'd with his Father's Bloud."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"Where dost thou dwell? what caverns of the Brain / Can such a vast and mighty thing contain?"
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)