There is some suggestion, from a poem dated to 1681, again of doubtful accuracy, that Nell's father died at Oxford, perhaps in prison.

During his final school years he began writing poetry in notebooks, the first poem dated 27 April (1930), is entitled "Osiris, come to Isis".

In this incomplete poem, dated sometime between 1180 and 1191, the object has not yet acquired the implications of holiness it would have in later works.

A poem dated to the first half of the 11th century is an elegy for Aeddon, a landowner on Anglesey.

A poem dated November 28, 1921, begins "You took away my soul/ To the bottom of the river.

"Mir ward die Liebe nicht" ("Love did not come to me"), she lamented in a poem dated 1911.

The poem, dated 1786, is described by McCown as a 'shifting point' in Jupiter Hammon's worldview surrounding slavery.

Ynglingatal is a skaldic poem listing the kings of the House of Ynglings, dated by most scholars to the late 9th century.

Draumkvedet (The Dream Poem) is a Norwegian visionary poem, probably dated from the late medieval age.

The phrase "two wrongs infer one right" appears in a poem dated to 1734, published in The London Magazine.