Date: 1796
"Pervious to every beam, transparent Glass / Gives to the eye, all objects as they pass: / So the clear Soul, when justice claims her due, / Or honour calls,--sets all within, to view."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: w. 1746, 1797
"His youthful breast, by years mature refin'd, / May shine the mirror of thy blameless mind."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1798
"So, mighty Burke! in thy sepulchral urn, / To fancy's view, the lamp of Truth shall burn"
preview | full record— Canning, George (1770-1827)
Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798
"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."
preview | full record— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)
Date: 1799
Pleasures past "glow sublime" in Memory's "crystal prism" and "Beam on the gloom'd and disappointed Mind"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)