Date: 1752, 1790
Apollo's "sacred fire" inspires the bard's breast, "Like the fair empty sheet he hangs to view, / Void, and unfurnish'd, till inspir'd by you."
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752, 1790
"O let one beam, one kind inlightning ray / At once upon his mind and paper play!"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1754
"Look in my face; and, could my heart lie bare, / The Father would be seen engraven there"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1765
"That fruit thy covenant may yield, / Which is upon my forehead seal'd, / And on my heart ingraft."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)