Date: 1774
"Sweet peace of mind! seraphic guest! / How long thy absence shall I mourn?"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1775
"For woes on woes that anxious wretch pursue, / And on his soul fantastic terrors croud, / Who dares with eye distrustful stretch his view / Where Fate has spread her providential cloud."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1775
"With thee among the haunted groves / The lovely sorc'ress Fancy roves, / O let me find her here!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1777, 1793
"And what a crowd of wild ideas press / Distracting on the soul!"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1767, 1778
"Victorious in thy march, triumphant move, / Arm'd by each grace, each virtue, and each love; / These inmates firm, these bright, these strong allies, / Reign in thy soul, and conquer in thy eyes."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1767, 1778
"Here science, like the sun, see radiant rise, / With intellectual beam, through mental skies, / To gild, to gladden all th' improving space, / With taste, with candor, learning, sense, and grace; / To light up all the mind's remotest cells, / Where fancy fledges, and where genius dwells."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
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: 1778, 1804
"The stranger, Reason, cross'd her way."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1773, 1778
"The Passions there embody'd throng, / On mental Pinions, swift, and strong, / In Robes array'd of various Fire"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1779
Jesus may "inhabitest the humble mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)