Date: 1756
"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1759
"Then wilt Thou [God] in the saints reside, / And make their hearts Thy throne."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: w. 1764
"Take the bloody seal I give thee, / Deep impressed upon thy soul."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: November, 1769?
"And give me back my heart again, / And oh! instruct the roving guest, / No more to wander from my breast."
preview | full record— Shaw, Cuthbert (1738-1771)
Date: 1772, 1788
"Roast Beef quantum suff. and take tantum Red Port, / They steel the main-spring of the Heart."
preview | full record— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Date: 1772, 1788
"Tho' some hollow hearts may have much room to spare, / The Devil himself wou'd not chuse to dwell there."
preview | full record— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Date: 1773
"The potent sounds like lightning dart / Resistless through the glowing heart"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1778
"Still our joys are not complete, / Doubts and fears our minds invading / Till your gentle smiles we meet"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1778
"And if, O love, thy potent dart / Should reach the sleeping shepherd's heart, / O! be to him a gentler guest, / And pierce, with lighter shaft, his breast."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1789, 1794
"In every cry of every Man / In every Infants cry of fear / In every voice; in every ban / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)