Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World."
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1718
"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, w...
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1719
"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1720
"Poetry is called the image of the mind, / In mine my soul and body both are joined."
preview | full record— Sansom, Martha [née Fowke] (1690-1736)
Date: 1724, 1756
"Consult the native Dictates of thy Soul; / And if thou there discern the Maker's Hand, / Confess his Care, resign to his Command."
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Restless, on paper, we our vows repeat, / And pour our souls out, on the missive sheet"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1728
"While Love, recording with a keener Dart, / Engrav'd each Token deeper on my Heart!"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"I think / I'ad e'en as good take up with Ink: / On second Thoughts too, 'cause 'tis black, / It seems the very thing I lack, / For I am apt to think his Soul / Is somewhat darker than a Coal."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1733
"[M]eeting virtues" may be "perfectly imprest / On sacred Sheets, in thy Ethereal Breast"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733-1735
"Various rude Arts the untaught Ancients knew / To fix Ideas e'er they fled away, / And Images of Thought to Sight convey. / Brass, Wax, or Wood the Characters retain'd, / Some liv'd on Slates, and some the Canvas stain'd; / Some trac'd in Iv'ry, or engrav'd on Stone, / Or sunk in Clay, e're Bi...
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)