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: 1822
"Thrice has a gloomy vision hunted me / As thus from sleep into the troubled day; / It shakes me as the tempest shakes the sea, / Leaving no figure upon memory's glass"
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Date: 1825
The "ethereal mind" may be clouded
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
"Thus, when the fervid Passions cool, / And Judgement, late, begins to rule; / When Reason mounts her throne serene, / And social Friendship gilds the scene; / When man, of ripened powers possest, / Broods o'er the treasures of his breast; / Exults, in conscious worth elate, / Lord of himself--al...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1837
"Make Thou my spirit pure and clear / As are the frosty skies, / Or this first snowdrop of the year / That in my bosom lies."
preview | full record— Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)
Date: 1838
"Charm'd by her voice, th' harmonious sounds invade / His clouded mind, and for a time persuade:"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1839
"A face, the mirror of her mind, Like sky without a cloud"
preview | full record— Pringle, Thomas (1789-1834)
Date: 1839
"A fancy pure as virgin snows, / Yet playful as the wind"
preview | full record— Pringle, Thomas (1789-1834)