Date: April 26 1870
"For is there hue or shape defin'd / In Jenny's desecrated mind, / Where all contagious currents meet, / A Lethe of the middle street?"
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: April 26 1870
"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps / Of doubt and horror,—what to say / Or think,—this awful secret sway, / The potter's power over the clay!"
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: April 26 1870
"Like a rose shut in a book / In which pure women may not look, / For its base pages claim control / To crush the flower within the soul."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: April 26 1870
"You'd not believe by what strange roads / Thought travels, when your beauty goads / A man to-night to think of toads."
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Date: April 26 1870
"Between the threads fine fumes arise / And shape their pictures in the brain."
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Date: 1872
"No! the celestial Author and Creator / In those two volumes of the Book of Nature / Ordained for our instruction, represents, / By multiform but single elements, / One universe of sense, all that we know, / The visible world of instantaneous show / And tangible creation, hard and slow,The last r...
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1872
"At Shakespear's happy birth / With fire ethereal Jove his soul endow'd, / Then bade him spurn the narrow bounds of earth, / And sordid wishes of the grov'ling crowd, / That chain the free-born mind."
preview | full record— Laurence, French (1757-1809)
Date: 1874
"Earth thus I stamp thy bosom rouse the earthquake from his den"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: Date Unknown
A nose of wax is a "true symbol of the mind"
preview | full record— Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)
Date: 1785, 1881
"Brehm his own Mind survey'd, / As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare / With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)