Date: 1806
"The savage cheek / Smiles at the potent spoiler; braves his frown; / And while the partial gloom is most opake, / Still vaunts the mind unfetter'd!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"The savage cheek / Smiles at the potent spoiler; braves his frown; / And while the partial gloom is most opake, / Still vaunts the mind unfetter'd!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1808
"With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1808
"Draw close those ties, so fine and yet so strong, / That gently lead the willing soul along, / Nor crush beneath oppression's iron rod / The kindred image of the parent God; / Nor think that rigour's galling chains can bind / The native force of the superior mind."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1816
"Nor wide stretched lands, nor interposing deep, / Can check the progess of th’ unfetter’d soul."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1825
"This hallowed day, in Hymen's golden bands / Which joined consenting hearts and willing hands."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: w. c. 1789, published 1825
"Dost thou not see,--or art thou blind with age,-- / How many Graces on her eyelids sit, / Linking those viewless chains that bind the soul, / And sharpening smooth discourse with pointed wit."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)