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: w. before 1717? (first published 1989)
"But he who servily can wish or grieve / For that which is not in his powr to give / Casts off the firmness wch shoud make him great / the strongest shield we can oppose to fate / letts inclinations grow & thus he weaves / Those very bonds which keep us passions slaves."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)