Date: 1807
"For oft when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood, / They [the daffodils] flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1808
"Secure, his adamantine heart / In learning's musty cell / Repell'd poor Cupid's powerful dart, / And slighted every belle"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"In panoply of lead and brass / Their cautious hearts unfold, / Which beauty cannot pierce, alas! / Unless with darts of gold!"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"The soft harp's many-sounding strings, / Wak'd by the blushing maid, / Could melt the iron hearts of kings, / And beauty's influence aid"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"'But when the Bard by Arun's stream / Indulg'd each sadly tender theme, / And with enchantment wild combin'd / The countless "shadowy tribes of mind;'"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1810
"And let thy rage, with fancied wrongs insane, / Steel every thought with Delia's proud disdain"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1814
"Give me to send the laughing bowl around, / My soul in Bacchus' pleasing fetters bound."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1838
"His books, his walks, his musing, morn and eve, / Gave such impressions as such minds receive"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)