Date: 1649
"Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkind, / That from the nunnery / Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind / To war and arms I fly."
preview | full record— Lovelace, Richard (1617-1657)
Date: 1657
"Cupid denied of this did backward start, / And ran for hast to hide him in her heart, / Where he renewed fresh flames, and by delay, / So I corcht his wings he could not fly away / Thus force perforce in her my conquer'd breast / Is the poore Inne of such a God-borne guest, / Whom while I harbor...
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1658
"The Alc'ran sayes, (which who will may beleeve) / The Moon descended into Mahomet's sleeve: / 'Tis strange! yet God doth his loves lamp impart / T'a more coarcted room, what's that? the heart."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"Wit, Understanding, Memory, and Will, / The pallace of the soul inhabit still."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1661
"[T]hrough ev'ry Breast [Faith] goes, invades their Minds, which, all-possest / By her great Deitie, each Soul doth prove / Her Altar, burning by her Sacred Love"
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1661
"These are but objects at a distance, these / Are but refreshments, and to give you ease, / To make thy Way the sweeter, till thou art / Hid in the Closet of Sophia's Heart."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this attracting Face our Pilgrim throws / His eyes, his Soul thorow those windows goes"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1667
"The Cup-board serves to keep provision in, / Mans heart holds in it, either grace or sin."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"It's to the Castle of the Heart a Wall / Of Brass: it is a Christians coat of Mail, / How many do for want of it miscarry!"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"The heart is Gods peculiar Cabinet, / And Satan knows not what is in it set"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)