Date: 1801
"My soul her bondage ill endures; / I pant for liberty like yours."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1805
"And, indeed, so long as chivalry lasted, the minstrels were protected and caressed, because their music tended to do honour to the ruling passion of the times, and to encourage and foment a martial spirit."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1791, 1806
"Then spare, thou sweet Urchin, thou soother of pain, / Oh! spare the soft picture engrav'd on my heart; / As a record of Love let it ever remain; / My bosom thy tablet--thy pencil a dart."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"Beneath his feet shot thro' him as he stood in the Human Brain / And all its golden porches grew pale with his sickening light"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"With tears of sorrow incessant she labourd the food of Orc / Compelld by the iron hearted sisters Daughters of Urizen"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"Weeping at the threshold of Existence I will steel my heart / Against thee to Eternity & never recieve thee more"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"perhaps this is the night / Of Prophecy & Luvah hath burst his way from Enitharmon / When Thought is closd in Caves. Then love shall shew its root in deepest Hell"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"So shall [you] govern over all let Moral Duty tune your tongue*But be your hearts harder than the nether millstone"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)