Date: 1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
"Thy Paradise, thro' whose fair Hills of Joy / Those Springs of everlasting Vigor range, / Which make Souls drunk with Heav'n, which cleanse away / All Earth from Dust, and Flesh to Spirit change."
preview | full record— Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
Date: 1703
"Distorted Nature shakes at the Controul, / With strong Convulsions rends my strugling Soul; / Each vital String cracks with th' unequal Strife, / Departing Love racks like departing Life; / Yet there the Sorrow ceases with the Breath, / But Love each day renews th' torturing scene of Death."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1723
"Does thy Soul sicken, while thy Body's sound?"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Small is the soul's first wound, from beauty's dart, / And scarce th' unheeded fever warms the heart."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1728
"Or canst Thou judge, by partial Passion blind?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1735
"In vain my weeping eyes thy features traced / (And features speak the passions of the mind)".
preview | full record— Anonymous