Date: 1755
"My heart was free from care: / Love was a stranger to my breast"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1746, 1757
"If Pity be no Stranger to thy Breast, / (As sure it should not to a Breast like thine, / Soft as the Swanny Down!) relenting, hear"
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: 1757
"Let heav'n-born Mercy ever fill thy Breast, / And Truth be there an ever constant Guest."
preview | full record— Arnold, Cornelius (b. 1714, d. in or after 1758?)
Date: 1760, 1850
"Yet still in fancy's painted cells / The soul-inflaming image dwells."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: w. May, 1756; 1761
"For these, if I forget my patron's praise, / While bright ideas dance upon my mind, / Ne'er may these eyes behold auspicious days, / May friends prove faithless, and the Muse unkind."
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)
Date: 1762
"He beholds him with bursting joy; and turns, amid his crowded soul"
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: w. 1739, 1762
"Come Melancholy! silent Pow'r, / Companion of my lonely Hour, / To sober thought confin'd: / Thou sweetly-sad ideal Guest, / In all thy soothing Charms confest, / Indulge my pensive Mind."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: w. 1739, 1762
Melancholy's "transient Forms like Shadows pass, / Frail Offspring of the magic Glass, / Before the mental Eye."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: w. 1748, 1762
"In Silence hush'd, to Reason's Voice, / Attends each mental Pow'r."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1763
"No--'tis the tale which angry Conscience tells, / When She with more than tragic horror swells / Each circumstance of guilt; when stern, but true, / She brings bad actions forth into review; / And, like the dread hand-writing on the wall, / Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call, / Arm'd at al...
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)