Date: 1775
"Need we the influence of the northern star / To string our nerves and steel our hearts to war? "
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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: 1787
"For scenes that frequent shapes of Death impart / Arm the firm breast, and steel the manly heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1803
"What though Astrea decks my soul in gold, / My mortal lumber trembles with the cold;"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1803
"Sermons, though flowing from the sacred lawn, / Are flimsy wires from reason's ingot drawn."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1817
"Not until my dream became / Like a child's legend on the tideless sand. / Which the first foam erases half, and half / Leaves legible"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"The sacred links of that chain have never been entirely disjoined, which descending through the minds of many men is attached to those great minds, whence as from a magnet the invisible effluence is sent forth, which at once connects, animates, and sustains the life of all"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"It is as it were the interpretation of a diviner nature through our own; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only as on the wrinkled sand which paves it."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)