Date: 1788
"Ah, not alone of power possest / To check each virtue of the breast; / As when the numbing frosts arise / The charm of vegetation dies."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1788
"His sway the harden'd bosom leads / To Cruelty's remorseless deeds; / Like the blue lightning when it springs / With fury on its livid wings, / Darts to its goal with baleful force, / Nor heeds that ruin marks its course."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1789?
The placid current of the mind may be bestorm'd so that "th' ideal billows, raging, rise"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Like a snow-ball, the mind, fraught with peace in its prime, / Moves swiftly adown the steep shelvings of Time; / Accumulates filth from Society's sons, / And strengthens and hardens its coat as it runs; / Till habit on habit is negligent laid, / And the object appears motley, vile, and ill-made...
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1790
The mind holds "each parted form," "like the after-echoing" of a storm
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Date: 1790
"But let me not thus pond'ring, gaping, stand-- / But, lo, I am not at my own command: / Bed, bosom, kiss, embraces, storm my brains, / And, lawless tyrants, bind my will in chains."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1791
The mind may be rent as when two adverse winds vex and blow the sable flood
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
"He spake, and at his words grief like a cloud / Involved the mind of Hector dark around"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1791
The sight of someone may raise a tempest in the mind
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)