Date: 1700
"Rack'd with my griefs, my Anxious Soul survives, / Dash'd like a ship which with the Billows drives."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1716
"If midst of Thoughts that crowd into thy Mind, / The Care of absent Friends a Place can find, / Retire a while from Warlike Noise and Throng / Into thy inmost Tent, and listen to my Song."
preview | full record— Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715)
Date: 1741
"But Thou shalt rise superior to their Arts, / And fix Thy Empire in a People's Hearts."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1758
Truth is the "Great queen of harmony ... whose moral scepter rules the hearts of kings"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1772
"In Fancy's Mirror, we but darkling see, / What must, hereafter, our Advantage be."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1775
"Such was the Wreath, when HYMEN led / Our MONARCH to his nuptial bed; / And such the tender Chain which binds, / In mutual Love, their wedded Minds."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)