Date: 1832

"Yet distant countries / Not then, as now, communication held / By beaten tracks, and all the luxuries / Of easy transit, while the missive charge / Of the pen's register'd mirror of the mind / Was slow and interrupted"

— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)

Date: 1833

"It was the coinage of the aged brain, / When sadness and the sense of loneliness / Oppress the weary heart!"

— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

Date: 1834

Fancy may judge a beloved "ever fond and true"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1835

"And marks betray the lover's heart, / Deeply engrav'd by Cupid's dart"

— Broome, William (1689-1745); Anacreon

Date: 1835-7

Romney is an expert and can trace "The mind's impression too on every face"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1836

"Yet, though their 'souls the iron enter'd,' moans / From captive kings were not enough to sate / Barbaric vengeance"

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838); Moschus

Date: 1837

The heart may be made of stone

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

Date: 1837

"Make Thou my spirit pure and clear / As are the frosty skies, / Or this first snowdrop of the year / That in my bosom lies."

— Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)

Date: 1837

"As these white robes are soil'd and dark, / To yonder shining ground; / As this pale taper's earthly spark, / To yonder argent round; / So shows my soul before the Lamb, / My spirit before Thee; / So in mine earthly house I am, / To that I hope to be."

— Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)

Date: 1838

"Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, / And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)