Date: 1804
"The tender fair, whose heart is pity's throne, / With ease forgives all errors, but her own"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1804
The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1804
The nine [muses] may "vindicate [sensibility's] empire o'er the mind"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1804
"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1804
One may part "Ere love had held long empire in his heart"
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1804
A "soul-commanding chord" may be "The conqueror of grief, and joy's creative lord"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1804
" Two men they were by storms of misery driven / To lose the soul's sheet anchor, trust in Heaven!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1804
"tho' on his injur'd breast / Impending death his signet had imprest,
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1804
"Her Brain enlabyrinths the whole heaven of her bosom & loins / To put in act what her Heart wills"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"For every human heart has gates of brass & bars of adamant, / Which few dare unbar because dread Og & Anak guard the gates"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)