Date: 1684
"All in thy faithful Glass were so express'd, / As if they were Reflections of thy Breast, / As if they had been stamp'd on thy own mind"
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"My grateful Thoughts so throng to get abroad, / They over-run each other in the crowd: / To you with hasty flight they take their way, / And hardly for the dress of words will stay."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"But Settle, and the Rest, that writ for Pence, / Whose whole Estate's an ounce, or two of Brains"
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"When holy Trances first inspire his Breast, / And the God enters there to be a Guest."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"In that white Snow which overspreads your skin, / We trace ye whiter Soul which dwells within."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1687
"My Passions rule, long since my Reason dyde"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
Cupids in air y forms do move and conspire "conquering ev'ry Heart, or setting it on Fire"
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1694
On may achieve a "noble conquest" over his own passions
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1694
"Pray mind me, Sir, to shew my Shape and Aire; that as the Loadstone does the Obedient Iron--should draw by force to me all Hearts but yours--."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)