Date: 1807
"For oft when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood, / They [the daffodils] flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1810
"And let thy rage, with fancied wrongs insane, / Steel every thought with Delia's proud disdain"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1814
"Give me to send the laughing bowl around, / My soul in Bacchus' pleasing fetters bound."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1838
"His books, his walks, his musing, morn and eve, / Gave such impressions as such minds receive"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1838
"Survey these features--see if nothing there / May old impressions on your mind repair!"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
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: 1848
"When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain [...] "
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1868
"The pardon Thou hast bought for me, / Engrave it on my heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles