Date: October 4, 1802
"Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, / Reality's dark dream! / I turn from you, and listen to the wind, / Which long has raved unnoticed."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1806
"All around / A solemn stillness seems to guard the scene, / Nursing the brood of thought--a thriving brood / In the rich mazes of the cultur'd brain."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
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: 1820
"And we breathe, and sicken not, / The atmosphere of human thought: / Be it dim, and dank, and gray, / Like a storm-extinguished day, / Travelled o'er by dying gleams; / Be it bright as all between / Cloudless skies and windless streams, / Silent, liquid, and serene; / As the birds within the win...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
"Swift as a Thought by the snake Memory stung, / From her ambrosial rest the fading Splendour sprung."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
"And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, / Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
One may have "A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1821
"Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief / Convulse us and consume us day by day, / And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1824
"'I rose; and, bending at her sweet command, / Touched with faint lips the cup she raised, / And suddenly my brain became as sand / 'Where the first wave had more than half erased / The track of deer on desert Labrador; / Whilst the wolf, from which they fled amazed, / 'Leaves his stamp visibly u...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1825
Domestic love may build her nest in the "feeling breast"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)