Date: 1842
"The heart retires within her cave, / And, bleeding, asks an early grave!"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"Think'st thou fond memory will not bear / Thy image through the drowning tear? / The mind's eye then shall take the place, / And wander o'er thy much lov'd face."
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: w. 1795-1796, first published 1842
"In these my lonely wanderings I perceived / What mighty objects do impress their forms / To elevate our intellectual being."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1847
"I've dreamed in my life dreams that have staid with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
preview | full record— Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)
Date: 1847
"His brightening mind brightened his features, and added spirit and nobility to their aspect."
preview | full record— Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)
Date: 1848
A sword's point may be dipped in "the gloomy current of a traitor's heart"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1848
"Byron! how sweetly sad thy melody! / Attuning still the soul to tenderness"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1848
We may like on our fled soul, like a "mother wild" on an "infant child" in an "eagle's claws"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1848
"O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, / Would all their colours from the sunset take: / From something of material sublime, / Rather than shadow our own soul's day-time / In the dark void of night."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)