Date: 1742
"Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades, / Which wait the revolution in our hearts?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Lorenzo! no; the thought of death indulge; / Give it its wholesome empire! let it reign, / That kind chastiser of thy soul in joy!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Its reign will spread thy glorious conquests far, / And still the tumults of thy ruffled breast: / Auspicious era! golden days, begin!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"The thought of death shall, like a god, inspire."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"On minds of dove-like innocence possess'd, / On lighten'd minds, that bask in Virtue's beams, / Nothing hangs tedious; nothing old revolves / In that for which they long, for which they live."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Life makes the soul dependent on the dust; / Death gives her wings to mount above the spheres."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Through chinks, styled organs, dim Life peeps at light; / Death bursts the' involving cloud, and all is day; / All eye, all ear, the disembodied power."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven, / By tyrant Life dethroned, imprison'd, pain'd? / By Death enlarged, ennobled, deified? / Death but entombs the body; Life, the soul."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Then welcome, Death, thy dreaded harbingers, / Age and Disease: Disease, though long my guest,-- / That plucks my nerves, those tender strings of life; / Which, pluck'd a little more, will toll the bell / That calls my few friends to my funeral."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"I wake, emerging from a sea of dreams / Tumultuous; where my wreck'd desponding thought, / From wave to wave of fancied misery, / At random drove, her helm of reason lost."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)