Date: 1817
"bring a mind, / Where legal and where moral sense are join'd, / With the pure essence; holy thoughts, that dwell / In the soul's most retired, and sacred cell"
preview | full record— Gifford, William (1756-1826)
Date: 1818
"I knew, I knew / There was a place untenanted in it: / In that same void white Chastity shall sit, / And monitor me nightly to lone slumber"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1820
"Clothe it in words, and bid it clasp his throne / In intercession; bend thy soul in prayer, / And like a suppliant in some gorgeous fane, / Let the will kneel within thy haughty heart."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
"Yet am I king over myself, and rule / The torturing and conflicting throngs within, / As Jove rules you when Hell grows mutinous."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
"And we breathe, and sicken not, / The atmosphere of human thought: / Be it dim, and dank, and gray, / Like a storm-extinguished day, / Travelled o'er by dying gleams; / Be it bright as all between / Cloudless skies and windless streams, / Silent, liquid, and serene; / As the birds within the win...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
"The peaceful conscience" is "the heart's so cheering guest, / Which had--a rush for all the rest."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1822
"He rose / Disturbed and frowning, for tumultuous thoughts / Crowded like night upon his heart"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1825
Tender charities may reside in the "feeling breast"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"Sweet are the thoughts that stir the virgin's breast / When love first enters there, a timid guest"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)