Date: 1703
"Distorted Nature shakes at the Controul, / With strong Convulsions rends my strugling Soul; / Each vital String cracks with th' unequal Strife, / Departing Love racks like departing Life; / Yet there the Sorrow ceases with the Breath, / But Love each day renews th' torturing scene of Death."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1706
"Not in the Court of Conscience, Sir."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1706, 1709
"O 'tis a Thought would melt a Rock, / And make a Heart of Iron move."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706, 1709
"COME let me Love: or is my Mind / Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706, 1709
"But let thine Image ever dwell / Stampt as a Seal upon my Heart."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"'O let my Name ingraven stand, / 'Both on thy Heart and on thy Hand."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"Then let thy Name be well imprest / As a fair Signet on my Breast."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"Why should we vex and grieve his love, / Who seals our souls to heavenly life?"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"Thus, led by what delusive Fame imparts, / We think thy [Modesty's] Throne's erected in their Hearts; / But w'are deceiv'd, as all our Fathers were, / For if thou Art at all, 'tis sure thou art not there."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
A woman's heart is a "black Mansion" in which nothing resides "But Spite, Contention, Luxury, and Pride"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)