Date: 1805?
Holding council in the breast is like the "regal bee" consulting before calling forth the "warlike train" "from their waxen cells"
preview | full record— Thelwall, John (1764-1834)
Date: w. 1805
"Call we this / But a persuasion taken up by Thee / In friendship; yet the mind is to herself / Witness and judge, and I remember well / That in life's every-day appearances / I seem'd about this period to have sight / Of a new world, a world, too, that was fit / To be transmitted and made visibl...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: w. 1805
"But all the meditations of mankind, / Yea, all the adamantine holds of truth, / By reason built, or passion, which itself / Is highest reason in a soul sublime; / The consecrated works of Bard and Sage, / Sensuous or intellectual, wrought by men, / Twin labourers and heirs of the same hopes, / W...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: w. 1805
"Oh! why hath not the mind / Some element to stamp her image on / In nature somewhat nearer to her own?"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: w. 1805
"Why, gifted with such powers to send abroad / Her spirit, must it lodge in shrines so frail?"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: w. 1805
"Hitherto, / In progress through this Verse, my mind hath look'd / Upon the speaking face of earth and heaven / As her prime Teacher, intercourse with man / Establish'd by the sovereign Intellect, / Who through that bodily Image hath diffus'd / A soul divine which we participate, / A deathless sp...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: w. 1805
"Yes, I remember, when the changeful earth, / And twice five seasons on my mind had stamp'd / The faces of the moving year."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: w. 1805
"And I have scarcely pitied him; have felt / A reverence for a Being thus employ'd; / And thought that in the blind and awful lair / Of such a madness, reason did lie couch'd."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1805
"But Flint itself can teach to feel, / And soon subdue a breast of steel."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: April 1806
"Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! / Oh, come, and make thy downy nest / Once more on his sad heart!"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)