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: 1819
"But there are persons of that low and inordinate appetite for servility, that they cannot be satisfied with any thing short of that sort of tyranny that has lasted for ever, and is likely to last for ever; that is strengthened and made desperate by the superstitions and prejudices of ages; that ...
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
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"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
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: 1820
"Branched thoughts" or "dark-cluster'd trees" may be new grown in some untrodden region of the mind
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1820
"With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign, / Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1820
"A rosy sanctuary will I dress / With the wreath'd trellis of a working brain"
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)
Date: 1830
"To grasp intelligence as this night-like mine or pit in which is stored a world of infinitely many images and representations, yet without being in consciousness, is from the one point of view the universal postulate which bids us treat the notion as concrete, in the way we treat, for example, t...
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)