Date: 1684
"But Settle, and the Rest, that writ for Pence, / Whose whole Estate's an ounce, or two of Brains"
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"When holy Trances first inspire his Breast, / And the God enters there to be a Guest."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"In that white Snow which overspreads your skin, / We trace ye whiter Soul which dwells within."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1687
"My Passions rule, long since my Reason dyde"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
Cupids in air y forms do move and conspire "conquering ev'ry Heart, or setting it on Fire"
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1693
"Grief clouds my sadder Mind, when it should be, / As free as unconcern'd, as calm as she."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1693
"When I did first this charming object view, / Her Image in my Mind took Root & grew."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1703
"Weary'd at last, curst Hymen's Aid I chose; / But find the fetter'd Soul has no Repose."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1703
"Distorted Nature shakes at the Controul, / With strong Convulsions rends my strugling Soul; / Each vital String cracks with th' unequal Strife, / Departing Love racks like departing Life; / Yet there the Sorrow ceases with the Breath, / But Love each day renews th' torturing scene of Death."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)