Date: 1817, 1818
"Look on your mind--it is the book of fate-- / Ah! it is dark with many a blazoned name / Of misery--all are mirrors of the same"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1818?
"Upon his heart with Iron pen / He wrote Ye must be born again."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1819
"A brother's warning on thy heart engrave"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1820
"The memoranda of the mind, Which on the inmost page so white, — Combe, William (1742 -1823)
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Date: 1822
"Thou didst say thou knewest / A Jew, whose spirit is a chronicle / Of strange and secret and forgotten things."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1824
"And in my wisdom are the orbs of Heaven / Written as in a record"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1825
The "white page of innocence and youth" may be tinted.
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1835
"And marks betray the lover's heart, / Deeply engrav'd by Cupid's dart"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Anacreon
Date: 1852
"Give me thy hand, and hush awhile, / And turn those limpid eyes on mine, / And let me read there, love! thy inmost soul."
preview | full record— Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
Date: 1867
"This book by any yet unread, / I leave for you when I am dead, / That being gone, here you may find / What was your living mother's mind."
preview | full record— Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)