Date: 1706
"The Marble Heart groans with an inward Wound: / Blaspheming Souls of harden'd Steel / Shriek out amaz'd at the new Pangs they feel, / And dread the Eccho's of the Sound."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706
"Affliction is the Fire, wherein their Mind / From Sin, and drossy Mixtures is refin'd."
preview | full record— Baker, Daniel (c. 1654-1723)
Date: 1706, 1709
"O 'tis a Thought would melt a Rock, / And make a Heart of Iron move."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706, 1709
"COME let me Love: or is my Mind / Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707, 1710
"But now I come to cure my fond Disease; / This Steel thy flinty Breast will surely please."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707, 1710
"O Sacharissa, what could steel thy Breast, / To Rob Harmonious Waller of his Rest?"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707
"Our Heart, that flinty stubborn thing, / That Terrors cannot move, / That fears no threatenings of his Wrath, / Shall be dissolv'd by Love."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1708
"Gold is the Magnet whose Attraction / Commands his Heart in ev'ry Action: / To that his Avaricious Soul / Points like the Needle to the Pole:"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1708
"You know, Lavinia, once I lov'd you well; / Nor has your Crimes yet chang'd my Heart to Steel."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1709
"Nor can you unconcern'd thro' Ludgate pass / Without a Conscience steel'd, or Heart of Brass; / Where, thro' the Iron Grate, a Rueful Tongue / Directs you to the Box below 'em hung, / To angle Farthings from the num'rous Throng"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)