Date: 1816
An "o'erpow'ring spell may, in spite of "all that reason can suggest," maintain "despotic empire o'er [the] breast"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
A woman's conquest of a man's heart may be complete
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
"This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart"
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Date: 1816
"'Whate'er thy title, from my grateful heart / 'Ne'er can th' impression of thy zeal depart."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
"Here, true to nature's feelings, find / A living mirror in each mind."
preview | full record— Story, Robert (1795-1860)
Date: 1816
"Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art / Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1816
"In my youth's summer I did sing of One, / The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1816
"[I]n that Tale I find / The furrows of long thought, and dried-up tears, / Which, ebbing, leave a sterile track behind."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1816
"Since my young days of passion--joy, or pain-- / Perchance my heart and harp have lost a string-- / And both may jar."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1816
"[H]e can tell / Why Thought seeks refuge in lone caves, yet rife / With airy images, and shapes which dwell / Still unimpaired, though old, in the Soul's haunted cell."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)