Date: 1790
"The idle crowd in fashion's train, / Their trifling comment, pert reply, / Who talk so much, yet talk in vain, / How pleas'd for thee, Oh nymph, I fly! / For thine is all the wealth of mind, / Thine the unborrow'd gems of thought, / The flash of light, by souls refin'd, / From heav'n's empyreal ...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1792
"Could gold once give thee to my eager arms, / Lo, into guineas would I coin my heart;"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)