Date: w. c. 1800-1807, 1866
"Joy & Woe are woven fine / A Clothing for the soul divine / Under every grief & pine / Runs a joy with silken twine"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. c. 1800-1807, 1866
"The Questioner who sits so sly / Shall never know how to Reply / He who replies to words of Doubt / Doth put the Light of Knowledge out"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. c. 1800-1807, 1866
"We are led to Believe a Lie / When we see not Thro the Eye / Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night / When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light / God Appears & God is Light / To those poor Souls who dwell in Night / But does a Human Form Display / To those who Dwell in Realms of day"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1803
" Bless'd be that Eye which dropp'd the friendly tear, / That sign'd each truth, and stamp'd the Soul sincere!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1803
"A Whirlpool swallowing up each awful thought / That Heav'n had stamp'd, or education taught."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1803
"Friends, while they honour Stanmore's fair outside, / The grateful feelings of my Heart divide, / And, filling up my Soul's respective cells, / Each in its warmest mansion ever dwells!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1803
"And all the floating thoughts we find / Upon the surface of the mind."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1804
"The daring imp has learn'd to stand his ground; / Well steel'd his heart, and bronz'd his face"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1804
"'Then first with the seducing Cup / 'I tried to steel my Breast, / 'To keep expiring Courage up"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1804
The mind may be kept upon her throne "in duty firm and sage"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)