Date: 1817
"The seeds, in earliest Childhood sown / As buds, will in the Boy be known: / In Youth, as blossoms will appear, / And in full Manhood, fruitage bear."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"The friends thou hast, and their adoption try'd, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"Nor should we pass the secret cell, / Where lonely Science loves to dwell, / Pleas'd, from its lamp, to cast the ray / That lights the mind's beclouded day."
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Date: 1817
"On this scroll thou seest written in characters fair / A sun-beamy tale of a wreath, and a chain; / And, warrior, it nurtures the property rare / Of charming my mind from the trammels of pain."
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Date: 1818
The faithful bless the Lord's "empire o'er the willing soul"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1823
"[I]n the virtuous heart is fix'd [Love's] lasting throne"
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Date: 1823
The prize of conquered hearts may repay pain
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Date: 1823
"On either side, and all around, engrav'd / Were mystic symbols seen of free-born hearts enslav'd"
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Date: 1823
A sublime power rules the will "And stamps His precepts on the conscious breast"
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Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
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