Date: 1817
"The friends thou hast, and their adoption try'd, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817, 1818
"My mind became the book through which I grew / Wise in all human wisdom, and its cave, / Which like a mine I rifled through and through, / To me the keeping of its secrets gave"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1817, 1818
"With ever-changing notes it floats along, / Till on my passive soul there seemed to creep / A melody, like waves on wrinkled sands that leap"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1817
"Not until my dream became / Like a child's legend on the tideless sand. / Which the first foam erases half, and half / Leaves legible"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1819
One may take "all my counterfeit address / 'For sterling passion, should the like profess?"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
""But an accursed dream has steel'd thy breast, / 'And all the woman in thy soul suppress'd."--"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1820
"And the beasts, and the birds, and the insects were drowned / In an ocean of dreams without a sound; / Whose waves never mark, though they ever impress / The light sand which paves it, consciousness"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1820
Yet he ne'er vainly strove to steel [...] His heart, and bid him not to feel, / But yielded to what Heav'n thought fit"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1821
"'Ah, move,' he said, 'and you shall feel / That Paddy has a heart of steel"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1823
The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)