Date: w. 1821, 1840
"Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sister...
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1839-1842
"My heart within / Melts as the wax."
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1842
The fancy may haunt a place from the one's past
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
Time may not "wear thy heart-stamp'd form away"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"Unchang'd the lasting images remain, / Of which Remembrance ever holds the chain."
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
In memory one may see the "nameless graces" of a friend's "polish'd mind"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"The heart retires within her cave, / And, bleeding, asks an early grave!"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1847
"I've dreamed in my life dreams that have staid with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
preview | full record— Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)
Date: 1848
We may like on our fled soul, like a "mother wild" on an "infant child" in an "eagle's claws"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1850
Imagination is "reason in her most exalted mood"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)