Date: 1786
"But if (which Pow'rs above prevent) / That iron-hearted carl, Want, / Attended, in his grim advances, / By sad mistakes, and black mischances"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1786
"'While in his Breast he bears, to Fear unknown, / 'A rigid Heart of Iron or of Stone!"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838); Moschus
Date: 1786
"With Iron Bosom, tho' the Beast he slew, / The Charms of melting Love Alcides knew!"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838); Moschus
Date: 1786
Friendship " bade my stubborn Bosom feel, / And soften'd thus a Heart of Steel!"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838); Moschus
Date: 1786
One may steal "The gem of truth from his unguarded soul"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1787-1818
"The countless gold of a merry heart / The rubies & pearls of a loving eye / The indolent never can bring to the mart / Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1787-1818
"You say reserve & modesty he has / Whose heart is iron his head wood & his face brass."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1787
"Whate'er pursuits the attentive mind employ / Must mark our manners with a strong alloy"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"Love was ever the touchstone to try the fine mind, / Sterling Virtue 'twill never debase; / No alloy can we know, from a passion refin'd,"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1787
"Virtue sleeps / While all the finest faculties of mind / Rust, like the iron long unus'd"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)