Date: 1778
"And if, O love, thy potent dart / Should reach the sleeping shepherd's heart, / O! be to him a gentler guest, / And pierce, with lighter shaft, his breast."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1779
"Such pensiveness oft follows, when the mind, / Surcharg'd with joy, hath yielded all her pow'rs / To the insidious guest."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1784
"Oh! spare me, Julia--look on me as I am, an alter'd man--peace has been a stranger to my bosom, and remorse and sorrow my constant companions, since we parted"
preview | full record— Andrews, Miles Peter (1742-1814)
Date: May 18, 1782, 1785
"Oh, that every heart was like mine, a stranger to dissimulation!"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1789
"How far am I raised above a girl educated among antelopes; a girl, whose heart must ever be a stranger to love!"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)