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)
Date: 1937
"Make [her mind], as a garden gay, / Every bud of thought display, / Till, improving year by year, / The whole culture shall appear,"
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1959
"(A slight miracle might cleanse / His brain / Of all attachments, claw-roots of sense)"
preview | full record— Hill, Geoffrey (b. 1932)