Date: 1797
""But returning passion, like a wave that has recoiled from the shore, afterwards came with recollected energy, and swept from her feeble mind the barriers which reason and conscience had begun to rear."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: w. 1789, 1798, 1800
"Oh glide, fair stream! for ever so; / Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, / 'Till all our minds for ever flow, / As thy deep waters now are flowing"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1800
"The mind that labours for a cure works ill / By feeding its own grief; wasting away / Like boiling waters in an useless struggle"
preview | full record— Bidlake, John (1755-1814)