Date: 1762
"And make Thy pardoning mercy known, / And seal it on my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: w. 1789, 1804
"While Vanity unveils her whiffling flags, / Her glittering trinkets, and her tawdry rags-- / Spreads spangled nets, and fills her philter'd bowl, / To fix each Sense, and fascinate the Soul-- / Her birdlime twigs contrived with such sly Art, / That while they tangle thoughts, they trap the heart...
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"perhaps this is the night / Of Prophecy & Luvah hath burst his way from Enitharmon / When Thought is closd in Caves. Then love shall shew its root in deepest Hell"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1823
A sublime power rules the will "And stamps His precepts on the conscious breast"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)