Date: 1767, 1784
"So, when on some weighty truth / A beam of heav'nly light its lustre sheds, / To Reason's eye it looks supremely fair."
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1773
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1777, 1793
"Hail, sacred solitude! These are thy works, / True source of good supreme! Thy blest effects /Already on my mind's delighted eye / Open beneficent"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1785, 1838
The body may feast while the mind may fast
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1788
The heart may be "often-wounded," "Renew'd and heal'd"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)