Date: 1727, 1739
"My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest [Love], / Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1741
"I [the mind] did but step out, on some weighty affairs, / To visit last night, my good friends in the stars, / When, before I was got half as high as the moon, / You despatched Pain and Languor to hurry me down; / Vi & Armis they seized me, in midst of my flight, / And shut me in caverns as dark...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1742
"At home a stranger, / Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, / And wondering at her own."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"Where roll my thoughts / To rest from wonders? Other wonders rise; / And strike where'er they roll: my soul is caught; / Heaven's sovereign blessings, clustering from the cross, / Rush on her in a throng, and close her round, / The prisoner of amaze!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)