Date: 1771
"There, 'mid her faithful vassal train, / With hearts to conquer, or to die, / Eliza sat; her beauteous mein / Eclips'd by Sorrow's tearful eye."
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1773
"O Wisdom! if thy soft controul / Can soothe the sickness of the soul, / Can bid the warring passions cease, / And breathe the calm of tender peace;-- / Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, / And ever, ever will obey."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Not all their cruelty (the fair rejoin'd) / Shall ever boast a conquest o'er my mind"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1773
"Virtue that breast without a conflict gained, / And easy, like a native monarch, reigned."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1774
"Her charms my raptur'd eyes detain'd, / Her virtues conquer'd all my soul"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1775
"This my success in search of Friendship's grove, / Where Liberty and Peace I hoped to find, / And soften'd thus with Grief, deceitful Love, / In Friendship's borrow'd garb, attack'd my mind."
preview | full record— Miss H******* (fl. 1751-1775)
Date: 1777
"Not all her arts my steady soul shall move, / And she shall find that Reason conquers Love"
preview | full record— Lyttelton, George, first Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773)
Date: 1778
"Still our joys are not complete, / Doubts and fears our minds invading / Till your gentle smiles we meet"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1779
One may be 'Untaught "to bear the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest conquest of the mind!"'
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780, 1781, 1788
"Two passions there by soft contention please, / The love of martial Fame, and learned Ease: / These friendly colours, exquisitely join'd, / Form the enchanting picture of thy mind."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)