Date: 1752
"Should passion e'er his soul deform, / Serenely meet the bursting storm; / Never in wordy war engage, / Nor ever meet his rage with rage. / With all our sex's softening art / Recall the lost reason to his heart; / Thus calm the tempest in his breast, / And sweetly soothe his soul to rest."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Thy appetites in easy tides / (As reason's luminary guides) / Soft flow--no wind can work them to a storm, / Correctly quick, dispassionately warm."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1752
"Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free, / You are by much a greater Slave, than me; / A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind, / Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1753
"The clouded minds are purify'd at last."
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1754
Storms may surprise the heart, the seat of reason and repose
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754
There may be sunshine in the breast
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755
"His wav'ring mind is in a whirlwind tost."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)
Date: 1758
"Within MYSELF does Virtue dwell? / Is all serene and beauteous there? / What mean these chilling damps of fear? "
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1762, 1781
"SUFFOLK's Daughter sinks not with her Woe: / Beneath it's Weight I feel myself resign'd; / Tho' strong the Tempest, stronger still my Mind."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1762
"Till then the hope, by Damon's vows betray'd, / And wand'ring long on Passion's stormy seas, / By his unerring guidance safely led, / Shall fix her anchor on the rock of Peace."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)