Date: 1770
"Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, / The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway; / Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, / Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1788
"His verse as elegant; unspotted lines / Flow from a mind unspotted as themselves."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1789
"Nature on all sides showed a lovely scene, / And people's minds were, like the air, serene."
preview | full record— Hands, Elizabeth (bap. 1746, d. 1815)
Date: 1810
"And yet, my heart, within thy silent cell / Dwells a fair image which is lovelier still."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1842
"Unchang'd the lasting images remain, / Of which Remembrance ever holds the chain."
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
In memory one may see the "nameless graces" of a friend's "polish'd mind"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)