Date: 1862
"O may not gold, according to its kind, / Twist round your heart, and grow upon your mind!"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: April 26 1870
"Like a rose shut in a book / In which pure women may not look, / For its base pages claim control / To crush the flower within the soul."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: 1891
"So those high orthodoxies came to be / Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion, / And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea, / And drifted, holden by no wise dominion."
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)