Date: 1790
"But let me not thus pond'ring, gaping, stand-- / But, lo, I am not at my own command: / Bed, bosom, kiss, embraces, storm my brains, / And, lawless tyrants, bind my will in chains."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1790
"The passions join the fierce invading host; / And I and virtue are o'erwhelm'd and lost-- / Passions that in a martingale should move; / Wild horses loosen'd by the hands of Love."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1790
"With a soldier's care / He plan'd the conquest of Ophelia's heart/ and won it"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
One may have two souls "which, like two mighty Kings, / 'Ever contending for the sov'reignty, / 'Stir up sedition and revolt within"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"[M]y conquer'd heart / 'Has nothing noble or aspiring in it"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1810
"Our heroine fear'd him not; it was her part, / To make sure conquest of such gentle heart"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1812
Something may reach one "of the social arts, / That soften manners, and that conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)