Date: 1773
"In full perfection all thy works are wrought, / And thine the sceptre o'er the realms of thought."
preview | full record— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753–1784)
Date: 1773
"Before thy throne the subject-passions bow, / Of subject-passions sov'reign ruler Thou, / At thy command joy rushes on the heart, / And through the glowing veins the spirits dart."
preview | full record— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753–1784)
Date: 1773
"Fancy might now her silken pinions try / To rise from earth, and sweep th' expanse on high"
preview | full record— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753–1784)
Date: 1773
"Winter austere forbids me to aspire, / And northern tempests damp the rising fire; / They chill the tides of Fancy's flowing sea, / Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay."
preview | full record— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753–1784)
Date: 1773
"Strong Passions draw, like Horses that are strong, / The Body-Coach of Flesh and Blood along; / While subtle Reason, with each Rein in Hand, / Sits on the Box, and has them at Command; / Rais'd up aloft, to see and to be seen, / Judges the Track, and guides the gay Machine."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"But was it made for nothing else beside / Passions to draw, and Reason to be Guide? / Was so much Art employ'd to drag and drive / Nothing within the Vehicle alive? / No seated Mind that claims the moving Pew, / Master of Passions, and of Reason too?"
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Date: 1773
"The grand Contrivance why so well equip / With strength of Passions, rul'd by Reason's Whip?"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"Let fancy then, unconscious of the change, / Thro' our own climes, and native forests range."
preview | full record— Day, Thomas (1748-1789)
Date: 1773
"Yet of etherial temper are their souls, / And in their veins the tide of honour rolls; / And valour kindles there the hero's flame, / Contempt of death, and thirst of martial flame. / And pity melts the sympathizing breast, / Ah! fatal virtue!—for the brave distrest."
preview | full record— Day, Thomas (1748-1789)
Date: 1773
"But if thou com'st with frown austere / To nurse the brood of care and fear; / To bid our sweetest passions die, / And leave us in their room a sigh; / Or if thine aspect stern have power / To wither each poor transient flower, / That cheers the pilgrimage of woe, / And dry the springs whence ho...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)