Date: 1661
"These are but objects at a distance, these / Are but refreshments, and to give you ease, / To make thy Way the sweeter, till thou art / Hid in the Closet of Sophia's Heart."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this attracting Face our Pilgrim throws / His eyes, his Soul thorow those windows goes"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1685
"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: / Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, / As they draw near to their eternal home"
preview | full record— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Date: 1696
"Poor thredbare Vertue ne'er admir'd in Court. / But seeks its Refuge in an honest Mind, / There it securely dwells, / Like Anchorets in Cells / Where no Ambition nor wild Lust resorts."
preview | full record— Tutchin, John (1661-1707)
Date: 1700
"August and Open, as the Hero's Mind, / Be her capacious Courts design'd."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1702
"When Friends converse together Face to Face; / Then freely they Unbosom their Requests, / And treasure Secrets in each others Breasts, / As in firm Cabinets, close lock'd, where none / Can find the Key, but only each his own."
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1682, 1702
"True Friendship found not room / Within those narrow bounded Breasts, / The Lodging of Self-Interest,"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1682, 1702
One finds "true Content in any Lot; / Since in the Closet of his Mind / Dwells Solace not to be defin'd"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Now some may say, What Daniel, couldst not thou / In Heart, and in thy private Closet bow, / And make Petition in his Ear, that hears / Deep Sighs and Groans, as well as louder Prayers"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1703, 1718
Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)