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)
Date: 1820
"Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, / Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart / Made purple riot"
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Date: 1820
"How to entangle, trammel up and snare / Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there / Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1825
"Is there whose hours / Of still domestic leisure breathe the soul / Of friendship, peace, and elegant delight / Beneath poetic shades, where leads the Muse / Through walks of fragrance, and the fairy groves / Where young ideas blossom?"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)