Date: 1664
"Come! let thy locks (whose every Hair / A willing Lover doth ensnare) / Fetter my Soul, in those soft Chaines, / Where Beauty link't with Love, remains!"
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1664
"Come! let thy locks (whose every Hair / A willing Lover doth ensnare) / Fetter my Soul, in those soft Chaines, / Where Beauty link't with Love, remains!"
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1666
"O truly royal! who behold the law, / And rule of beings in your Maker's mind; / And thence, like limbecs, rich ideas draw, / To fit the levelled use of humankind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1660, 1668
"Have you not seen an early-rising Lark / Spring from her Turf, making the Sun her mark, / Shooting her self aloft, yet higher, higher, / Till she had sung her self into Heaven's Quire? / Thus would he rise in Pray'r, and in a trice / His Soul become a Bird of Paradise."
preview | full record— Wild, Robert (1615/16-1679)
Date: 1673, 1684
"Th' illiterate Writer, Emperique like, applies / To minds diseas'd, unsafe, chance Remedies."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1674, 1686
"For Fancy's like a rough, but ready Horse, / Whose mouth is govern'd more by skill than force; / Wherein (my Friend) you do a Maistry own, / If not particular to you alone; /Yet such at least as to all eyes declares /Your Pegasus the best performs his Ayres."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1677
"O whither will my minde with wavering sail, / When a Disease shall over me prevail?"
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1677
"His Soul appears like Paper white, / That yet had scarce bore word aright."
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1677
"Prepare thy heart, / For that's the room / Where God must come:"
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1677
"So of the Soul the saying may be true, / That e're it bids its Cabinet adieu, / Four inches is the most that it doth keep / Betwixt its life and an eternal sleep"
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)