Date: 1812
Fancy may be kindled
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1813
"O Spirit! through the sense / By which thy inner nature was apprised / Of outward shows, vague dreams have rolled, / And varied reminiscences have waked / Tablets that never fade."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1816
"[T]ort'ring pangs" and inexplicable woe may "like a torrent" overwhelm the soul
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
An "o'erpow'ring spell may, in spite of "all that reason can suggest," maintain "despotic empire o'er [the] breast"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
A woman's conquest of a man's heart may be complete
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
"This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
"'Whate'er thy title, from my grateful heart / 'Ne'er can th' impression of thy zeal depart."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
"Here, true to nature's feelings, find / A living mirror in each mind."
preview | full record— Story, Robert (1795-1860)
Date: 1816
"Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep, / Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1817
"With these Instructors may be join'd / To strengthen and enrich the mind, / Science, whose powers profound impart, / Whate'er of nature and of art / Presents to th'intellectual eye, / In all the vast variety."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)