Date: 1756, 1793
"Domestic troubles long my mind oppress'd, / And made the muse a stranger to my breast"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1756, 1793
"'Thought crowds on thought, my brisk ideas flow, / 'And much I long to tell, and much to know"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1760, 1850
"Yet still in fancy's painted cells / The soul-inflaming image dwells."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760, 1850
"What grand ideas crowd my brain! / What images! a lofty train / In beauteous order spring"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1762
"He beholds him with bursting joy; and turns, amid his crowded soul"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1765
"O ye pure inmates of the gentle breast, / Truth, Freedom, Love, O where is your abode?"
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1774
"Sweet peace of mind! seraphic guest! / How long thy absence shall I mourn?"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1787
"Still crowding thoughts, a pensive train, / Rose in my soul"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1788
"For me in vain is Nature drest, / While Joy's a stranger to my breast"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1789
"Peace and Hope, sweet twins of Virtue, / Shall be strangers to thy breast"
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)