Date: 1775
"Need we the influence of the northern star / To string our nerves and steel our hearts to war? "
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1787
"For scenes that frequent shapes of Death impart / Arm the firm breast, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1803
"What though Astrea decks my soul in gold, / My mortal lumber trembles with the cold;"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"Sermons, though flowing from the sacred lawn, / Are flimsy wires from reason's ingot drawn."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1817
"Not until my dream became / Like a child's legend on the tideless sand. / Which the first foam erases half, and half / Leaves legible"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)