Date: 1773
"My heart in Delia is so fully blest, / It has no room to lodge another joy."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1786
"'Tis thy pure spirit warms my Anna's mind. / Beams thro' the pensive softness of her form, / And holds its altar--on her spotless heart!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1789
"While in Fancy's ear / As in the evening wind thy murmurs swell, / The Enthusiast of the Lyre, who wander'd here, / Seems yet to strike his visionary shell, / Of power to call forth Pity's tenderest tear / Or wake wild frenzy--from her hideous cell!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1791, 1806
"When from the festive bow'r / The frenzied Homicide retreats, / And, in his bosom's cell, / Essays each rising throb to quell;"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1791, 1806
"Yet in my bosom's ruby cell / The philosophic lore shall live!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1793
"For what is sleep, but temporary death; / Sealing up all the windows of the soul, / And binding ev'ry thought in torpid chains?"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"But when thy true poetic lays, / Pierce to the Heart's remotest cell; / We feel the conscious innate praise"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
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: 1825
"How would it open every secret cell / Where cherished thought and fond remembrance sleep!"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1842
"Regret came shivering through my veins, / And bound my tongue in iron chains; / My soul in prison seem'd to be / And ever must if torn from thee."
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)