Date: 1842
Fancy keeps a "glow-worm court, / Where wearied wishes all resort, / Who mixing in her tinsell'd train / Still keep their title light and vain"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1890
"No rack can torture me, / My soul's at liberty."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"The soul unto itself / Is an imperial friend,— / Or the most agonizing spy / An enemy could send."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
Secure against its own, / No treason it can fear; / Itself its sovereign, of itself / The soul should stand in awe."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)