Date: 1609
"But then begins a journey in my head / To work my mind, when body's work's expired"
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1609
"For then my thoughts (from far where I abide) / Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee"
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1610
"How happy is he, which hath due place assigned / To his beasts, and disafforested his mind."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1612
"Another part became the well of sense, / The tender well-arm'd feeling brain, from whence / Those sinewy strings, which do our bodies tie, / Are ravelled out, and fast there by one end, / Did this soul limbs, these limbs a soul attend."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1621
One may have " A waxen mildnes in a steely minde"
preview | full record— Sylvester, Joshua (1562/3-;1618)
Date: 1624, 1628
"Heu dolor! caveae membra fuere meae. / Pes compes, manicaeque manus, nervique catenae, / Ossaque cancellis nativa repagula claustri, / Damner ut hospitii compede vincta mei?" ["Alas, what misery! that the light poured me forth on these unhappy airs! My very limbs are a prison to me. Feet fetters...
preview | full record— Hugo, Herman (1588-1629)
Date: 1633
"If they be two, they are two so / As stiffe twin compasses are two, / Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show / To move, but doth, if the'other doe."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1635
"Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, / But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1647
"False Coin with which th'Impostor cheats us still; / The Stamp and Colour good, but Metal ill!"
preview | full record— Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
Date: 1657
" Then Calice where the English did remain / During eleven Kings reigns from her was ta'in; / Which loss so griev'd her, as she did impart, / That Calice was engraven in her heart."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)