Date: 1820
"And we breathe, and sicken not, / The atmosphere of human thought: / Be it dim, and dank, and gray, / Like a storm-extinguished day, / Travelled o'er by dying gleams; / Be it bright as all between / Cloudless skies and windless streams, / Silent, liquid, and serene; / As the birds within the win...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1825
"This hallowed day, in Hymen's golden bands / Which joined consenting hearts and willing hands."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1826
"Now, with submission to my betters, I have another way, sir; I'll drive my tyrant from my heart, and place myself on her throne."
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: 1826
One may be "lord of [his] own tenement, and keep [his] household in order"
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: 1826
A woman's "reason [may be] ship-wrecked upon her passion, and the hulk of her understanding lies thumping against the rock of her fury"
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: w. 1795-1796, first published 1842
"In these my lonely wanderings I perceived / What mighty objects do impress their forms / To elevate our intellectual being."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1848
A sword's point may be dipped in "the gloomy current of a traitor's heart"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)