Date: 1794
"Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity! / In chains of the mind locked up, / Like fetters of ice shrinking together."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"How thoughts to thoughts are link'd with viewless chains, / Tribes leading tribes, and trains pursuing trains."
preview | full record— Bilsborrow, Dewhurst (fl. 1794)
Date: 1794
"Each man of sense, you'll find disdain / To drag coquetry's galling chain. / 'Tis prudence, truth, good sense, my dear, / That makes the lamp of love burn clear; / These are the silken cords, that bind / The Lover's, and the Husband's mind."
preview | full record— Pointon, Priscilla [AKA Priscilla Pickering] (c. 1740-1801)
Date: 1796
"Nay, if, like hers, my heart were iron-bound, / My warmth would melt the fetters to the ground"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"The chains of care fall off my pensive mind, / When through the winds your spirit hails me."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"Ah! fly the scene; secure that guilt can find / In brutal force no fetter for the mind!"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1797
"Fear thee, O Death!--Or hug the chains that bind / To joyless, cheerless life, her sick, reluctant mind?"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)