Date: 1667
"So unconcern'd she lives, so much above / The Rubbish of a sordid Jail, / That nothing doth her Energy improve / So much as when those structures fail."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"It is our narrow thoughts shorten these things, / By their companion Flesh inclin'd; / Which feeling its own weakness gladly brings / The same opinion to the Mind."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"We stifle our own Sun, and live in Shade; / But where its beams do once appear, / They make that person of himself afraid, / And to his own acts most severe."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"He that commands himself is more a Prince / Then he who Nations keeps in awe; / Who yield to all that does their Souls convince, / Shall never need another Law."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1660, 1668
"Have you not seen an early-rising Lark / Spring from her Turf, making the Sun her mark, / Shooting her self aloft, yet higher, higher, / Till she had sung her self into Heaven's Quire? / Thus would he rise in Pray'r, and in a trice / His Soul become a Bird of Paradise."
preview | full record— Wild, Robert (1615/16-1679)
Date: 1673, 1684
"Th' illiterate Writer, Emperique like, applies / To minds diseas'd, unsafe, chance Remedies."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1674, 1686
"For Fancy's like a rough, but ready Horse, / Whose mouth is govern'd more by skill than force; / Wherein (my Friend) you do a Maistry own, / If not particular to you alone; /Yet such at least as to all eyes declares /Your Pegasus the best performs his Ayres."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1677
"O whither will my minde with wavering sail, / When a Disease shall over me prevail?"
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1677
"His Soul appears like Paper white, / That yet had scarce bore word aright."
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1677
"Prepare thy heart, / For that's the room / Where God must come:"
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)