Date: 1739
"Thy hand can trace the characters divine, / And stamp celestial beauty on my soul"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1792
One can "wage war" on his own heart and "conquer it, or perish"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1792
"O, the fell conflict, the intestine strife, / This clash of good and evil, death and life! / What, what are all the wars of sea and wind, / Or wreck of matter, to This War of Mind?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1792
"Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest, / Rending the sphere of our distracted breast!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)