Date: 1792
"Ah me! the passion that my soul misled / Was check'd, not conquer'd; buried, but not dead: / Now bursting from the grave, in evil hour, / It hastens to its prey with fiercer pow'r, / And, vulture-like, with appetite increas'd / It riots on the undiminish'd feast."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1792
"Now that stern habit throws without controul / Her chain of adamant around thy soul / May not th' unhappy Abelard disclose / (To her who pities most) his train of woes?"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: w. 1791-2
"But, sent from God, his presence leaves, / To gather home his ripen'd sheaves, / To call encumber'd souls away / From fleshly bonds to boundless day, / (As when the winged hours excite, / And summon forth the morning-light) / And each to convoy to her place / Before the Eternal Father's face."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1794, 1800
"Be hot with wrath, great iron-hearted Mack"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: w. 1787, 1797
"They only who are curst with breasts of steel / Can mock the foibles of surviving love"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1746, 1797
"His youthful breast, by years mature refin'd, / May shine the mirror of thy blameless mind."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"His iron-heart with Scripture he assail'd, / Woo'd him to hear a sermon, and prevail'd."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: w. 1779, published 1800
"Now strike me to the ground, on which I kneel, / Ere yet this heart relapses into steel;"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)