Date: 1667
"A Conscience unstain'd with blushing crimes, / Holds out in all changes of States and Times. / Mount Sion and good Conscience abide / For ever"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1681?
"My mind was once the true survey / Of all these meadows fresh and gay"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1681?
"For Juliana comes, and she, / What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1684
"Much like th' ore-fond, tormented Lover, / Whose Travels Scorns alone discover / To th' chased Stag? Their Dwellings bear / Same form, sad-fortun'd Both appear, / Wilderness round his Fancy shows, / Which wild, disorder'd Thoughts compose; / Hunted by Dogs each strong for Scent / (Grief, Rage, D...
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1685
"For, as we see in Princes Pallaces, / How all the avenues, and passages / Are strictly guarded, to oppose the rude / Tumultuous entries of the Multitude: / Whilst civil persons, who have business, / Pass through the Guards, and dayly make address / To th'Princes ear: so all the Guards o'th' brai...
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1691
"For wheresoe'r We look's an unknown Coast, / Our Mind perplex'd in endless Storms is tost; / And in th' Abyss all Wit and Learning lost."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1697, 1700
"And from the narrow limits of the Heart, / The Active Soul doth vigorous Life impart / To all the Limbs, its Sway the Members own, / Wide is its Empire from its petty Throne."
preview | full record— Manilius, Marcus (fl. 1st Century AD), Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1697
"Reluctant Sense declines the untrodden Path, / Tho aided both by Reason and by Faith."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)