Date: 1693

"When Reason with her Robes ascends the Throne, / And wisely all my scatter'd Thoughts calls home, / The Messenger is so divine, / Unto her Laws I must resign."

— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)

Date: 1693

"For should I let these Thoughts but rove / They'd fix upon Tyrannick Love."

— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)

Date: 1700

"Whilst our own Will our Passions shall restrain, / He [Nassaw] gives us each an Empire where to Reign."

— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

Date: 1731

"Worn out with Cares, and tott'ring in her Seat, / The Soul resigns her Throne, and seeks Retreat."

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: 1731

"No longer Reason could her Empire boast, / But in the soft Astonishment was lost."

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: [1731?] 1734

"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"

— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

The mind "speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod" as "The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Tho' winding paths" the soul's "sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)