Date: 1679
"With him [Chirst] I live, his word I hear, yet feel / No yielding to him in this heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Slater, Samuel (c.1629-1704)
Date: 1681
"Some livelier spark of heaven, and more refined / From earthly dross, fills the great poet's mind."
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1685
"One would have thought such melting Words / Should break an Heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
A "heaven-born mind" may have "no dross to purge from [its] rich ore"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1686
"Or coldness, worse than Steel, the Loyal heart doth wound"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1686
A " Heav'n-born Mind" may have "no Dross to purge from [its] Rich Ore:"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1687
"Each Note tun'd up the Soul, calcin'd the Mind, / Commenc'd them something more than humane kind; / Their very Bodies into-Souls refin'd."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1687
"Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; / So drossy, so divisible are they, / As would but serve pure bodies for allay."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
If death could be bought off, "Almighty Gold should all controul; / I'd bear his Image in my Soul."
preview | full record— Goodall, Charles (1671-1689)