Date: 1788
" Blest be that pencil, every art be blest, / That stamps his image deeper on our breast!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1788
"Shall I trust the thoughts that rise / And struggle in my panting breast, / Tinted with a thousand dyes, / Image quick on image prest"
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1788
"See the fond links of feeling nature broke! / The fibres twisting round a parent's heart, / Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1788
"The outrag'd Goddess with abhorrent eyes / Sees MAN the traffic, SOULS the merchandize!"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1788
"Of home! dear scene, whose ties can bind / With sacred force the human mind / That feels each little absence pain, / And lives but to return again / To that lov'd spot, however far, / Points, like the needle to its star; / That native shed which first we knew, / Where first the sweet affections ...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1788
There are those "whom the traffic of their race / Has robb'd of every human grace; / Whose harden'd souls no more retain / Impressions Nature stamp'd in vain; / All that distinguishes their kind, / For ever blotted from their mind; / As streams, that once the landscape gave / Reflected o...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1788
"An healing balm to thy warp'd sense she brings, / Till from her softness magic comfort springs, / And joys which reason with a frown denies, / Her tender pity with a smile supplies."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1788
"Fires not the social blood within your veins, / To make the White Man feel the Negro's pains? / Beat not your hearts the miscreant arms to bind, / Of the proud Christian with a savage mind?"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1788
"But if rebellion vex each vital part, / The head made dark by demons in the heart, / The will runs riot, while the passions rule, / The soul a slave, and reason quite a tool"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1788
"The soul [is] a slave, and reason quite a tool."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)