Date: 1709
"Bring down the Piece,Urania, from Above, / And let my HONOUR and my LOVE / Dress it with Chains of Gold to hang upon my Heart."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709
"I know the Kindred-Mind. 'Tis she, 'tis she; / Among the Heav'nly Forms I see / The Kindred-Mind from fleshly Bondage free."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1746, 1749
"Such Rancour this, of such a poisonous Vein, / As never, never, shall my Paper stain: / Much less infect my Heart"
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1771
"Roused from the sleep of death, a countless crowd / ("Whose hearts like trees before the wind are bow'd ... ) / Press to the hallow'd courts, with eager strife, / Catch the convincing word, and hear for life"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1796
"My sons, if rich, might wield / The fan emblaz'd with Psyche and her boy / O'er some enchantress, whose contagious sighs / Would blast the best impression of their souls."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"The chains of care fall off my pensive mind, / When through the winds your spirit hails me."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1807
"Shakespear's page, my Lucy, shall unroll / To thy rapt sight the mirror of the soul"
preview | full record— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)
Date: 1835-7
Romney is an expert and can trace "The mind's impression too on every face"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1990
"now you see the / two doctors, behind / you, in mind's eye, / probe into your anus, / or ass, or bottom, / behind you, the roto- / rooter-like device / sees all up, concludes / 'like a worn-out inner tube'"
preview | full record— Creeley, Robert (1926-2005)
Date: 2006
"None of them ever breathed / a word about the fact that this humming, / aromatic, acid flashback, pungent, tingly / fingered world is acted out differently / for each one of us by the puppet theatre / of our senses."
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)