Date: 1744
"Life animal is nurtured by the sun; / Thrives on his bounties, triumphs in his beams. / Life rational subsists on higher food, / Triumphant in His beams who made the day."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Here, dormant matter waits a call to life; / Half-life, half-death, join there: here, life and sense; / There, sense from reason steals a glimmering ray; / Reason shines out in man."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"With inward eyes, and silent as the grave, / They stand collecting every beam of thought, / Till their hearts kindle with Divine delight; / For all their thoughts, like angels seen of old / In Israel's dream, come from, and go to, heaven."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1780
"This duty paid, a dawn, like that of peace, / By soft degrees illum'd the mourner's mind."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1788
"Since there is no convexity in MIND, / Why are thy genial beams to parts confined?"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)