Date: April 26 1870
"The cloud's not danced out of my brain,— / The cloud that made it turn and swim / While hour by hour the books grew dim."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: April 26 1870
"Let the thoughts pass, an empty cloud!"
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: January, 1884
"As a snowflake-crystal caught in the warm hand is no longer a crystal but a drop, so, instead of catching the feeling of relation moving to its term, we find we have caught some substantive thing, usually the last word we were pronouncing, statically taken, and with its function, tendency and pa...
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1892
"The thought beneath so slight a film / Is more distinctly seen,-- / As laces just reveal the surge, / Or mists the Apennine."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"A shady friend for torrid days / Is easier to find / Than one of higher temperature / For frigid hour of mind."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind, / Thy windy will to bear!"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1898
"Silently we went round and round, / And through each hollow mind / The Memory of dreadful things / Rushed like a dreadful wind, / And Horror stalked before each man, / And Terror crept behind."
preview | full record— Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900)
Date: 1900
"When by the wind of Thought is stirred / Obscure Religion, throned in mist, / 'She has not said her final word' / Declares the staunch apologist."
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1900
"But thought that strives to reunite / In polished facets of the mind / The broken colours of the light / Baffled in mists of human kind."
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)