Date: 1820
"Good bye, I wish you a wiser master--a jailor' heart should be like you--iron."
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1820
"How will thy soul, cloven to its depth with terror, / Gape like a hell within!"
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
"On a poet's lips I slept / Dreaming like a love-adept / In the sound his breathing kept; / Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, / But feeds on the aƫreal kisses / Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1848
"A young man's heart, by Heaven's blessing, is / A wide world, where a thousand new-born hopes / Empurple fresh the melancholy blood"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821) [in collab. with Brown]
Date: 1848
The soul may be spotted
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821) [in collab. with Brown]