Date: 1803
"WHEN the awaken'd soul receives / The first impression fancy gives / Temper'd by soft affection's reign, / Sweet are the days of pleasing pain."
preview | full record— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)
Date: 1803
The muse "beams a visionary day: / Bright as the magic torch she early gave / To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave."
preview | full record— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)
Date: 1805
"Still is it the false coinage of my fears?"
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Date: 1808
A woman may stretch "her blameless empire o'er the heart."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"She'd touch the callous mind, unus'd to feel, / With savage virtue, and the lawless zeal"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
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
"Yet our souls are so crusted with housewifely moss, / That Fancy's bright furnace yields nothing but dross:"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"No gossip in my faithful heart / Shall ever occupy her room"
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)