Date: 1838
The soul "may be a lawn besprinkled o'er with flowers, and stirring shades, and baffled beams"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1850
"My seventeenth year was come; / And, whether from this habit rooted now / So deeply in my mind, or from excess / In the great social principle of life / Coercing all things into sympathy, / To unorganic natures were transferred / My own enjoyments; or the power of truth / Coming in revelation, d...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Caverns there were within my mind which sun / Could never penetrate, yet did there not / Want store of leafy arbours where the light / Might enter in at will."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"These mighty workmen of our later age, / Who, with a broad highway, have overbridged / The froward chaos of futurity, / Tamed to their bidding; they who have the skill / To manage books, and things, and make them act / On infant minds as surely as the sun / Deals with a flower."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1854
"Let it [caelestïal Sweetness] not stop when entred at the Ear / But sink, and take deep rooting in my heart."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: April 1861
"My heart is like an apple-tree / Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)
Date: 1862
"O may not gold, according to its kind, / Twist round your heart, and grow upon your mind!"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1868
"The fiend out of my soul to chase, / And plant Thy kingdom in its place."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: April 26 1870
"Like a rose shut in a book / In which pure women may not look, / For its base pages claim control / To crush the flower within the soul."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)