Date: 1780
"I call not you!--for, oh, your callous bosoms / Fell Dissipation steels, and robs your minds / Of the sweet energies bestow'd by Heaven."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"Forgive the frenzy of a heart unsteel'd / By disappointment's shocks."
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Date: 1788
"When the sharp iron wounds his inmost soul, / And his strain'd eyes in burning anguish roll; / Will the parch'd negro find, ere he expire, / No pain in hunger, and no heat in fire?"
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