Date: 1697
"Say you so, my Heart of Steel. Then let not your Noble Courage be cast down"
preview | full record— Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724)
Date: 1783
"In lucent words my darkling verses dight, / And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams,"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1787-1818
"You say reserve & modesty he has / Whose heart is iron his head wood & his face brass."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1780, 1788
"Authority! unfeeling power, / Whose iron heart can coldly doom / The Debtor, dragg'd from Pleasure's bower, / To sicken in the dungeon's gloom."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)