Date: 1804
"Still I perceive thee, in my heart enshrin'd, / Its guardian idol, and its favourite guest."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1807-8
"So minds debas'd can torture gen'rous acts: / And thus, by terrors haunted, hunger-pinch'd, / Hag-ridden by the demon at their hearts, / Suspicious, tost from thought to thought, they watch'd / The lagging hours of night"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"How then should matron Mind, with filial fear, / Judge all the embryo thoughts engender'd there"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"What Spectres mad Suspicion might behold / Pilfering her property, in goods, or gold--"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1820
"Yet am I king over myself, and rule / The torturing and conflicting throngs within, / As Jove rules you when Hell grows mutinous."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: March 1843
"The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Date: 1850
"No familiar shapes / Remained, no pleasant images of trees, / Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields; / But huge and mighty forms, that do not live / Like living men, moved slowly through the mind / By day, and were a trouble to my dreams."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1854
"t was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination had been strangled in his cradle, should be still inconvenienced by its ghost in the form of grovelling sensualities; but such a monster, beyond all doubt, was Tom."
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Date: 1892
"Winds of summer fields / Recollect the way,-- / Instinct picking up the key / Dropped by memory."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892, 1899
"This mental escort which the mind supplies is drawn, of course, from the mind's ready-made stock."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)