Date: 1697
"Lord, strike this Marble Heart, thy powerful Stroke / Will make a Flood gush from the cleaving Rock. / O draw all Nature's Sluces up, and drain / Her Magazines, which liquid Stores contain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1699
"Love then, that sweet procession of the Mind, / Was from all Dross, and Earthly Dreggs refin'd."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700
"As softest metals are not slow to melt, / And pity soonest runs in gentle minds:"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"O Sacharissa, what could steel thy breast, / To rob the charming Waller of his rest?"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)