Date: 1599
A Hecatean Hag may "Worke mindes as wax"
preview | full record— Roche, Robert (1576-1629)
Date: 1687
"My Passions rule, long since my Reason dyde"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
Cupids in air y forms do move and conspire "conquering ev'ry Heart, or setting it on Fire"
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1717
One may strive "On every Subject's Heart to seal his Love ... What Breast so hard? what Heart of human make, / But softning did the kind Impression take?"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1717
"Some livelier Spark of Heav'n, and more refin'd / From earthly Dross, fills the great Poet's Mind."
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1773
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1791
"Hail to each ancient sacred shade / Of those, who gave the Muses aid, / Skill'd verse mysterious to unfold, / And set each brilliant thought in gold."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)