Date: 1793, 1806
"And Truth's white bosom stampt with falsehood's stain!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1794
"Never shall time from my fond heart efface / His image"
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1794
"I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames. / And thou dost stamp them with a signet"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1795
"O ye slaves whom Massa beat, / Ye are stained with guilt within / As ye hope for mercy sweet / So forgive your Massas' Sin."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1796
"These feeble sounds / Give not my soul's rich meaning; or my thought / Rises too boldly o'er the human line / Of alphabets (misused)."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"No drug, nor juice of all the acid tribe, / Can move the Tints, which Glassy Pores imbibe; / So no mean prejudice, no bribes, nor art, / Efface th' Impressions of an Upright Heart."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1796
"Behold the wretch, who from that cavern [a madhouse?--"Sad habitation of the lost, insane"] flies, / Hell in his heart, destruction in his eyes"
preview | full record— Merry, Robert (1755-1798)
Date: 1796
"Say, ye who balance things in reason's scale, / Does Magnanimity soar a pitch more high, / When Majesty listens to a trifler's tale?-- / Or when Humanity scorns to hurt a fly?"
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)