Date: 1814
A "ripening mind" may be "fitted for a throne"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Thoughts, like Churl's corn, in chamber'd stores entomb'd, / Devour'd by vermin, or, decay, consum'd; / Whose fruits might food, or opulence, afford; / Enrich the Rich, or bless the poor Man's board."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1817
"'--O let not Sloth depress to earth / 'Those early blossoms in their birth, / 'Which to your ripening mind is given, / 'To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
With "attentive hand" the "Luxuriance" of one's nature may be pruned so that branches will bear fruit
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"The seeds, in earliest Childhood sown / As buds, will in the Boy be known: / In Youth, as blossoms will appear, / And in full Manhood, fruitage bear."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1818
"[L]ove doth scathe, / The gentle heart, as northern blasts do roses"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1818
The "springing verdure" of the heart may be frosted
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1818
"Watering the heart whose early flowers have died, / And with a fresher growth replenishing the void."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1820
Lovers may share the "inward fragrance of each other's heart"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)