Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)

"Fain would he see some distant scene / Suggested by his restless spleen, / And fancy's telescope applies / With tinctur'd glass to cheat his eyes."

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)

Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)

"Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate / The dark decrees and will of fate, / And dreams beneath the spreading beach / Inspire, and docile fancy teach; / While, soft as breezy breath of wind, / Impulses rustle thro' the mind."

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)

Date: 1737

"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"But oh! what anguish did his soul invade, / When he was told, the lov'd enchanting maid / At Isis holy shrine devoutly bow'd, / A virgin priestess to the goddess vow'd?"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"Some heav'nly being had prepar'd his thought, / And on his heart the kind impression wrought."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"The soft impression of my brothers face, / Dwells on my heart."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"Such black designs are strangers to our breast."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"To him my heart shall gratefully ascribe / The crown of conquest, his unquestion'd right"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"Fly from my soul all images of sense"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"O name divine! / Be thou engraven on my inmost soul"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)