Date: 1747
"Why can I not this fatal Flame remove? / Or why, O why is it a Crime to love? / By Turns my Reason and my Passion sway, / As Honour triumphs, and as Love betray; / My tortur'd Breast conflicting Passions tear, / And Love and Virtue wage unequal War."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"AH cease to grieve, fond fluttering Heart, / Thy charming Conqueror returns; / Hence every Doubt each Fear depart, / The Youth with equal Passion burns."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
"When cares invade your partner's heart, / Bear you a sympathising part, / And kindly claim your share of pain, / And half his troubles still sustain."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1755
"Like Death impartial, [Love] presents his Dart, / And sure to conquer, aims at ev'ry Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1758
"COME, Epictetus, arm my breast / With thy impenetrable steel, / No more the wounds of grief to feel, / Nor mourn, by others' woes deprest."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1758
Here lurks DISTEMPER's horrid train / And there the PASSIONS lift their flaming brands; / These with fell rage my helpless body tear, / While those, with daring hands, / Against th' immortal soul their impious weapons rear."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1762
One may see "Tears which would melt a heart even free to view, / How then must mine that's conquered bleed anew"
preview | full record— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)
Date: 1773
"O Wisdom! if thy soft controul / Can soothe the sickness of the soul, / Can bid the warring passions cease, / And breathe the calm of tender peace;-- / Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, / And ever, ever will obey."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Virtue that breast without a conflict gained, / And easy, like a native monarch, reigned."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1778
"Still our joys are not complete, / Doubts and fears our minds invading / Till your gentle smiles we meet"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)