Date: 1788
"Does matter govern spirit? or is mind / Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1788
"On Eloquence, prevailing art! / Whose force can chain the list'ning heart; / The throb of Sympathy inspire, / And kindle every great desire; / With magic energy controul / And reign the sov'reign of the soul!"
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1789
"Thee Queen of Shadows! [Fancy]--shall I still invoke, / Still love the scenes thy sportive pencil drew, / When on mine eyes the early radiance broke / Which shew'd the beauteous, rather than the true!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1789
"Alas! these joys are mine in dreams alone, / When cruel Reason abdicates her throne!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1790, 1806
"Proud may he be who nobly acts his part, / Who boasts the empire of each subject's heart."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1791, 1806
Reason may "triumph on her tranquil throne:
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1791
"She bids the soften'd Passions live--/ The Passions urge again their sway."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1791, 1792
"For thou to me canst sov'reign bliss impart, / Thy mind my empire--and my throne thy heart."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1793, 1806
"Truth can derive no eminence from birth, / Rich in the proud supremacy of worth; / Its blest dominion vast and unconfin'd, / Its crown eternal, and its throne the mind!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1796?
"In that soft Bosom where no Faction reigns seek thy Asylum."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)