Date: 1816
"Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep, / Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1825
"This hallowed day, in Hymen's golden bands / Which joined consenting hearts and willing hands."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: w. c. 1789, published 1825
"Dost thou not see,--or art thou blind with age,-- / How many Graces on her eyelids sit, / Linking those viewless chains that bind the soul, / And sharpening smooth discourse with pointed wit."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)