Date: 1790
"The passions join the fierce invading host; / And I and virtue are o'erwhelm'd and lost-- / Passions that in a martingale should move; / Wild horses loosen'd by the hands of Love."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1790
"With a soldier's care / He plan'd the conquest of Ophelia's heart/ and won it"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
One may have two souls "which, like two mighty Kings, / 'Ever contending for the sov'reignty, / 'Stir up sedition and revolt within"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"[M]y conquer'd heart / 'Has nothing noble or aspiring in it"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1792
"Ah me! the passion that my soul misled / Was check'd, not conquer'd; buried, but not dead."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)