Date: 1806
The fancy may be sick (and borne on a grey goose wing to immortal fame)
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797, 1806
"While shadows, blanks to reason's orb, / In dread succession haunt the brain"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1807
"For oft when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood, / They [the daffodils] flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1808
"The Soul awakes; and, wond'ring, sees / In her mild Hand the golden Key."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1808
"She'd touch the callous mind, unus'd to feel, / With savage virtue, and the lawless zeal"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1810
"In his mind's eye his house and glebe he sees, / And farms and talks with farmers at his ease;"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"This is Mr Brydone's own simile, and beyond any other which could have been chosen, brings to the mind's eye these peculiar effects of vision"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1811
"And thou, sublimest Essence! hear the prayer; / Who, hid from outward sense, on the mind's eye / Pour'st thy refulgent evidence."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797); Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1813
The thought may be feasted and the mind filled with sweet sensations
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: w. 1798-1800, 1814
"To these emotions, whencesoe'er they come, / Whether from breath of outward circumstance, / Or from the Soul--an impulse to herself-- / I would give utterance in numerous verse."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)