Katherine Phillips

• Katherine Phillips “To my excellent Lucasia": 'I am not thine but thee'
• Katherine Phillips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship: 'Let our flame stille light and shine / (And no bold feare controulle)'
• Katherine Phillips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship: '"inspires cures and supplies"'
• Katherine Phillips, To Antenour: 'My errours are only mine'
• Katherine Phillips “To Antenour": 'My love and life I must confess are thine'
• Katherine Phillips, “Friendship’s Mystery, To my dear Lucasia"

  “Our hearts are mutual victims laid

  while they (such power in friendship lies)

  Are alters Priests and Offring's made"
• Adriene Steibel 2008 “Not Since Sappho”: Masking her affection using poetry and works with the male-centred phallocentric sexuality
• Philips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship:

  For as a watch by art is wound    

  To motion, such was mine: 

  But never had Orinda found    

  A soul till she found thine;
• Elizabeth Scott Baumann and Sarah Ross argue in Women Poets of the English Civil War (2017) that the majority of her poetry was circulated in and around the 1650s
• Katherine Phillips “To My Excellent Lucasia": No bridegroom’s nor crown-conqueror’s mirth To mine compared can be: They have but pieces of the earth, I’ve all the world in thee