Date: 1831
"There are a multitude of causes that will produce a miscarriage of this sort, where the richest soil, impregnated with the choicest seeds of learning and observation, shall entirely fail to present us with such a crop as might rationally have been anticipated"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1838
The soul "may be a lawn besprinkled o'er with flowers, and stirring shades, and baffled beams"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
" For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious p...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1850
"My seventeenth year was come; / And, whether from this habit rooted now / So deeply in my mind, or from excess / In the great social principle of life / Coercing all things into sympathy, / To unorganic natures were transferred / My own enjoyments; or the power of truth / Coming in revelation, d...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Caverns there were within my mind which sun / Could never penetrate, yet did there not / Want store of leafy arbours where the light / Might enter in at will."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"These mighty workmen of our later age, / Who, with a broad highway, have overbridged / The froward chaos of futurity, / Tamed to their bidding; they who have the skill / To manage books, and things, and make them act / On infant minds as surely as the sun / Deals with a flower."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1854
"Let it [caelestïal Sweetness] not stop when entred at the Ear / But sink, and take deep rooting in my heart."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1862
"O may not gold, according to its kind, / Twist round your heart, and grow upon your mind!"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1868
"The fiend out of my soul to chase, / And plant Thy kingdom in its place."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles