Date: 1679
The eyes are "False mirrors of an Heart, which deeper lies."
preview | full record— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Date: 1680
"Art thou with pow'r come down to make us leave / Those conquer'd Souls, which by our wiles we have / Fetter'd, with a design to make them be / Companions with us in our misery"?
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1680
"So week and feeble I am grown, / Wasted to nothing, ev'ry bone / Disjoynted, from its place doth start, / Like Wax dissolv'd so is my Heart."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1680
"Those worthy deeds which he hath wrought / Within each breast, have left behind / Impressions, time can never blot."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1680
"Those worthy deeds which he hath wrought / VVithin each breast, have left behind / Impressions, time can never blot"
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1680
"Bright Reason's ray, / By damp of Wine, within this Hemisphere, / Was quench'd before: and now dim sense, to stay, / Must not expect, long after Her."
preview | full record— Darby, Charles (bap. 1635, d.1709)
Date: 1680
Bacchus may have "Legal Right" to do Morpheus job and "lock up each mans Brain: / Since every Room / His own Goods did contain, / And was his proper Wine-Cellar become."
preview | full record— Darby, Charles (bap. 1635, d.1709)
Date: 1681
"Some livelier spark of heaven, and more refined / From earthly dross, fills the great poet's mind."
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1681
"This [sadness] fetters all our Senses, pulleth down / Heav'ns Image, Reason from her rightful Throne / And in her room, by Fancies pow'rful Charm, / Sets up a feigned Ill to work our Harm."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1681
The Soul "sup[s] above, and cannot stay / To bait so long upon the way"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)