Date: 1653
"Sad melancholy Thoughts are for Shadowes plac'd, / By which the lighter Fancies are more grac'd."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1653
"Thoughts are for Shadowes plac'd, / By which the lighter Fancies are more graced. / As through a dark, and watry Cloud, more bright, / The Sun breakes forth with his Resplendent Light. / Or like to Night's black Mantle, where each Star / Doth clearer seem, so lighter Fancies are."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1653
"Some like to Rain-bowes various Colours shew, / So round the Braine Fantastick Fancies grow."
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Date: 1667
"We stifle our own Sun, and live in Shade; / But where its beams do once appear, / They make that person of himself afraid, / And to his own acts most severe."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)