Date: 1842
"Absence cannot guard the cell / Where wayward thoughts are doom'd to dwell"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"And ere the sentence left its hallow'd cave, / Would tell what thought was venturing next abroad. / Nor had Disguise in all her face or soul / One place to hide her poor and artful head; / Truth and her train had tenanted each cell, / And honest Friendship at the portal stood / To point or tell ...
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1843
"Pleasure is like photography. What we take, in the presence of the beloved object, is merely a negative film; we develop it later, when we are at home and have once again found at our disposal that inner darkroom, the entrance to which is barred to us so long as we are with other people."
preview | full record— Kierkegaard, Søren (1813-1855)
Date: 1848
"Choak not the granary of thy noble mind / With more bad bitter grain"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821) [in collab. with Brown]
Date: 1848
An old man's heart is narrow, tenantless of hopes, and stuffed with memories
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821) [in collab. with Brown]