Date: 1792
"Unknown, unfriended, to the Regal Bed: / For in the secret closet of her breast, / Constantia her imperial birth supprest"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1792
When human feelings may inspire the breast so that the "Mint of Nature" glows, "Virtue strikes her image on the mind"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1820
"We'll make his temple in our breast, / And offer up a tear."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1929
"And Shelley had his towers, thought's crowned powers he called them once."
preview | full record— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)
Date: 1980
"The back of the mind is a small hotel / And when the residents go on picnics / Or take buckets and spades down to the sea / The betrayals begin."
preview | full record— Longley, Michael (b. 1939)