Date: 1700
"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1683
"Falsely they [sense and rhyme] seem each other to oppose; / Rhyme must be made with Reason's laws to close; / And when to conquer her you bend your force, / The mind will triumph in the noble course."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1683
"To Reason's yoke she quickly will incline, / Which, far from hurting, renders her divine; / But if neglected, will as easily stray, / And master Reason, which she should obey."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1653
"If flattering Language all the Passions rule, / Then Sense, I feare, will be a meere dull Foole."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1653
"A Poet I am neither borne, nor bred,/ But to a witty Poet married: / Whose Braine is Fresh, and Pleasant, as the Spring, / Where Fancies grow, and where the Muses sing."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1661
"[Y]et is my Will / Free, as the Conquerour's: and Rome shall finde, / I still retain the Empire of my Minde, / That stands above her reach, where I alone / Will rule, and scorn to live, but on a Throne."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1661
"Him th'unhappy Queen / Views with an earnest Eye, and Entertains / With Smiles: for Love within her Bosom Reigns."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1664
"But swift Desires, / Transport my passions, to a Throne of Rest"
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1667
"But yet my self I may subdue; / And that's the nobler Empire of the two"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
" (Your Mind b'ing more transcendent than your State, / For while but Knees to this, Hearts bow to that,)"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)