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“pain” across the centuries

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Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 9 1550s 3 / 89 1600s 5 / 176 1650s 2 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 8 / 161 1800s 16 / 683 1850s 45 / 937 1900s 30 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1750s · 8 with this theme Show all eras

I thank thee God, that I have lived
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I thank thee God, that I have lived

by Elizabeth Craven · English

Elizabeth Craven portrait

17 December 1750 - 13 January 1828 (~78)

Let Not Sorrow Cloud Thy Brow
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Let Not Sorrow Cloud Thy Brow

by Amelia Alderson Opie · English

Amelia Alderson Opie portrait

12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853 (~84)

O tell na me o' wind and rain
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O tell na me o' wind and rain

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

Prayer for Indifference
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Prayer for Indifference

by Fanny Greville · English

Fanny Greville portrait

c. 1724 - 28 July 1789 (~65)

Sehnsucht
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Sehnsucht

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · German

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe portrait

28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832 (~83)

Then Be It So, and Let Us Part
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Then Be It So, and Let Us Part

by Amelia Alderson Opie · English

Amelia Alderson Opie portrait

12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853 (~84)

To Ruin
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To Ruin

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

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