Date: 1791
"In the rich realms of polished taste, / Where judgment penetrates to find / The treasures of the unwrought mind, / Where conversation's ardent spirit / Refines from dross the ore of merit, / Where emulation aids the flame / And stamps the sterling bust of fame."
preview | full record— West, Jane (1758-1852)
Date: 1791, 1806
"'Till virtue, pointing out the purer mind, / Secures the gem, and leaves the dross behind, / Claims the bright spirit from its native clod, / And bears it, spotless, to the sight of God!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1796
"There lux'ry spreads profusion wide, / To glut the iron breast of pride!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797
"Man, lost in ignorance and toil, / Becomes associate to the soil, / And his heart hardens like his native rock."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1799
"[Y]et much the Poet found, / To swell Imagination's golden store, / On Arno's bank"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1806
"Shall the caprice of nature, the deep tint / Of sultry climes, the feature varying, / Or the uncultur'd mind, endure the scourge / Of sordid tyranny, or heap the stores / Of his fair fellow man, whose ruddy cheek / Knows not the tear of pity; whose white breast / Conceals a heart, than adamant m...
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
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)