Date: w. May, 1756; 1761
"For these, if I forget my patron's praise, / While bright ideas dance upon my mind, / Ne'er may these eyes behold auspicious days, / May friends prove faithless, and the Muse unkind."
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)
Date: w. 1739, 1762
"Come Melancholy! silent Pow'r, / Companion of my lonely Hour, / To sober thought confin'd: / Thou sweetly-sad ideal Guest, / In all thy soothing Charms confest, / Indulge my pensive Mind."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: w. 1739, 1762
Melancholy's "transient Forms like Shadows pass, / Frail Offspring of the magic Glass, / Before the mental Eye."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: w. 1748, 1762
"In Silence hush'd, to Reason's Voice, / Attends each mental Pow'r."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1763
"No--'tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, / When She with more than tragic horror swells / Each circumstance of guilt; when stern, but true, / She brings bad actions forth into review; / And, like the dread hand-writing on the wall, / Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call, / Arm'd at al...
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1766
"Each art and science lodg'd in her fair breast, / With heav'n's bright caravan of virtues rest."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: November, 1769?
"And give me back my heart again, / And oh! instruct the roving guest, / No more to wander from my breast."
preview | full record— Shaw, Cuthbert (1738-1771)
Date: 1771, 1806
" 'Tho' from my mind each flatt'ring thought retir'd, / 'And in my bosom Hope and Peace expir'd;"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1773
"Let gladness dwell in every heart, / And praise on every tongue."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Beware of all, guard every part, / But most, the traitor in thy heart."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)