Date: 1805
"And the gay vein of sportive Sense / Enrich'd by sterling Innocence; / Th'undrossy treasures of the Mind / Good-humour'd, graceful, and refin'd; / And, rivalling the Seers of old, / Whate'er you touch transmutes to Gold."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1805
"I've a hole in my heart, you may through it drive a cart"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1805
"[N]or shall the heav'n-born mind / Oblivious linger in the silent cave / Of endless hopeless sleep"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: w. 1805
"Hitherto, / In progress through this Verse, my mind hath look'd / Upon the speaking face of earth and heaven / As her prime Teacher, intercourse with man / Establish'd by the sovereign Intellect, / Who through that bodily Image hath diffus'd / A soul divine which we participate, / A deathless sp...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: October 1807
"A soul [may be] defiled with every stain / That man's reflecting mind can pain."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1807-8
"Thus with the show of reason, but with hearts, / By faction tainted, and by envy steel'd / Against their youthful leader, they had hop'd / By these inglorious councils to degrade / And tarnish his high fame."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"Since, then, th' Eternal Pow'r has stamp'd each mind, / Pure and congenial, in one common mould"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"Oh! had [Heaven] stamp'd upon the human mind / The mild forbearance, and the love unfeign'd"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"So minds debas'd can torture gen'rous acts: / And thus, by terrors haunted, hunger-pinch'd, / Hag-ridden by the demon at their hearts, / Suspicious, tost from thought to thought, they watch'd / The lagging hours of night"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"perhaps this is the night / Of Prophecy & Luvah hath burst his way from Enitharmon / When Thought is closd in Caves. Then love shall shew its root in deepest Hell"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)