Date: 1716
"My ravish'd Heart strait like a Bird of Prey / Stoop'd at the Lure; And thus my early Youth / Was by vain Thoughts bewildred and mis-led."
preview | full record— Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715)
Date: 1762
"Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d, / Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws? / Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1766
"Ev'n this my friend, its well known image here / Remains engraven by the hand of love: / My beating heart confirms it for the same."
preview | full record— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Date: 1766
"Till now detain'd / In cruel bonds, his thoughts alone were free, / And these have never stray'd from his Constantia."
preview | full record— Williams, Anna (1708-1783)
Date: 1775
"How like a wanton lamb that careless play'd, / The shepherd and the fold forgotten quite, / My vagrant soul, in search of vain delight, / Many long years from her true Shepherd stray'd!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)