Date: 1783
"In lucent words my darkling verses dight, / And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams,"
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Date: 1783
"O sheathe their hearts with triple steel, that they / May emulate their fathers' virtues"
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Date: 1787-1818
"The countless gold of a merry heart / The rubies & pearls of a loving eye / The indolent never can bring to the mart / Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury"
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Date: w. 1787-1818
"You say reserve & modesty he has / Whose heart is iron his head wood & his face brass."
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Date: 1789, 1794
"In every cry of every Man / In every Infants cry of fear / In every voice; in every ban / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
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Date: 1790
"Yet ruthless Rulers! hearts of stone and steel!"
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Date: 1793
"Amidst the lustful fires he walks: his feet become like brass, / His knees and thighs like silver, & his breast and head like gold."
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Date: 1794
" The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd / The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge."
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Date: 1800-1803
"And these are the gems of the Human Soul"
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Date: 1800-1803
"The countless gold of the akeing heart"
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