Date: 1660
"Things that the least of drossy mixture hold, / Last longest; my Hearts flames Ætherial be, / More pure than seven times refined Gold / Than Cedar's flames: rays of a Deitie / They are."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1660
"A silent night inhabits my sad breast, / And now no chearful thought will be my guest."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1696
"Pitty would not now at least /Have been a stranger to her Breast"
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1707, 1710
"So can the pow'rful Grape our Reason cheat, / And o'er our giddy Fancy reign."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1714, 1735
"Alas! 'tis so--'tis fix'd the secret Dart; / I feel the Tyrant [Love] ravaging my Heart."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1730
"Enlarge the Purlieu of my narrow Mind: / In Colours, plain, expose to Reason's Eye, / What, yet, to Reason Nature does deny"
preview | full record— Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)
Date: 1732
The fancy may own its errors and humbly bow to Reason
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1732
One may "win and hold the Conquest of a Mind"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1732
"The Force of Modulated Sound, .... tunes the Heart at ev'ry Turn"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)