Date: 1810
"Kindness can woo the Lion from his den, / A moral teaching to the sons of men; / His mighty heart in silken bonds can draw, / And bend his nature to sweet Pity's law."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1811
"Her hazle eye, unfix'd and bright, / Dazzles with ever-changing light, / Like flames toss'd by the wind; / Now swimming in quick-passing sadness, / Now laughing in her soul's pure gladness, / The mirror of her mind"
preview | full record— Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855)
Date: 1811, 1812
In the "deep record of the Sibyl's leaves, / There no instruction the blank mind receives."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1811, 1812
"The soul, a cheering lamp, the scene illumes, / Fed with the splendour of ethereal rays, / And bright'ning still, as still the frame decays"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1812
The realms of mind are ruled by shades
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1812
Fancy may be kindled
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1813
"O Spirit! through the sense / By which thy inner nature was apprised / Of outward shows, vague dreams have rolled, / And varied reminiscences have waked / Tablets that never fade."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1816
"[T]ort'ring pangs" and inexplicable woe may "like a torrent" overwhelm the soul
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
An "o'erpow'ring spell may, in spite of "all that reason can suggest," maintain "despotic empire o'er [the] breast"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
A woman's conquest of a man's heart may be complete
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)