Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
A woman's heart is a "black Mansion" in which nothing resides "But Spite, Contention, Luxury, and Pride"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1717
"I render back the Treasure of thy Heart: / When in some new fair Breast it finds a Room, And I shall lie neglected in my Tomb; / Remember, oh! remember, the fair She / Can never love thee, darling Youth! like me."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1745
"New to each hour what low delight succeeds, / What precious furniture of hearts and heads!"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1760, 1850
"Yet still in fancy's painted cells / The soul-inflaming image dwells."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1764, 1773
"Heav'n search my soul, and if thro' all its cells / Lurk the pernicious drop of pois'nous guile; / Full on my fenceless head its phial'd wrath / May fate exhaust"
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)