Date: 1756
"A lazy languor creeps along my veins; / Dull, and more dull my heavy eyelids grow, / And ev'ry sense accepts the leaden chains."
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Date: 1756
"Oh, God of Sleep! arise, and spread / Thy healing vapours round my head; / To thy friendly mansions take, / My soul that burns, / Till he returns, / For whom alone I wish to wake."
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Date: 1756
"Alas! she hears me not; within her mind, / As warring flames are in the earth confin'd, / So is her rage and indignation pent."
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Date: 1756
"Let then my soul and body be a-kin, / Naked without, as desolate within."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1756
"What a rough war contending Passion keeps! / Now the storm's up; now, hah! by Heav'n he weeps."
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Date: 1756
"My brain's on fire, my blood begins to boil."
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Date: 1759
"Not all / His lenient arts, his favours heap'd upon me, / Shall cool the burning anguish of my soul."
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Date: 1759
"And to himself unknown within his breast / Unconscious bears the gen'rous glowing flame / Of all the virtues of his royal line."
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Date: 1759
"Seek not thus / To multiply the ills that hover round you; / Nor from the stores of busy fancy add / New shafts to fortune's quiver."
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Date: 1759
"Such is the charm / Of heart-felt virtue; such is nature's force / That speaks abroad, and in rude northern hearts / Can stamp the image of an awful God."
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