Date: 1806
The fancy may be sick (and borne on a grey goose wing to immortal fame)
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797, 1806
"While shadows, blanks to reason's orb, / In dread succession haunt the brain"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1808
"The Soul awakes; and, wond'ring, sees / In her mild Hand the golden Key."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1820
"Clothe it in words, and bid it clasp his throne / In intercession; bend thy soul in prayer, / And like a suppliant in some gorgeous fane, / Let the will kneel within thy haughty heart."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1822
"I see him plainly with my Minds Eye."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1825
The "searching mind" may make "keen glances"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
The mind may be sick and impatient
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
The heart may be naked and unarmoured
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)