Date: 1778

"Still our joys are not complete, / Doubts and fears our minds invading / Till your gentle smiles we meet"

— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)

Date: 1779

One may be 'Untaught "to bear the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest conquest of the mind!"'

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1780, 1781, 1788

"Two passions there by soft contention please, / The love of martial Fame, and learned Ease: / These friendly colours, exquisitely join'd, / Form the enchanting picture of thy mind."

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1780

" Let no remorse invade thy purposed mind, / But to one standard level all mankind."

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1780

"Ten thousand terrors now besieg'd her soul; / Ten thousand nothings, which her fancy drest / In colour, substance, circumstance, and form."

— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)

Date: 1782

"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art, / Powers of the mind , and feelings of the heart, / Insensible of Truth's almighty charms, / Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1783, 1810

"As when thou call'st the shuddering thoughts to mourn / O'er talents wither'd in the untimely urn; / To grieve that Penury's resistless storm / Beat cold and deadly o'er the shrinking form, / Where mighty Genius had those powers enshrined, / Whose reign is boundless o'er each feeling mind; / To ...

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1784

Cupid is "Ever gaining conquered hearts" by using Miss Hoyland's beauty as a bow

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

Date: 1784, 1787

The headlong rout's misguided rage may wage equal combat with the firm phalanx (of reasoning calms placid sense)

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

Date: 1784, 1787

"His mind to gentler thoughts he tries to move, / and conquer strong renown by stronger love"

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)