Date: c. 1680
"The Vitall Spirits apprehend thereby / Exposde to danger great suburbs ly, / The which they do desert, and speedily / The Fort of Life the Heart, they Fortify, / The Heart beats up still by her Pulse to Call / Out of the outworks her train Souldiers all / Which quickly come hence."
preview | full record— Taylor, Edward (1642-1729)
Date: August 4, 1778
"Behold! the soul shall waft away, / Whene'er we come to die, / And leave its cottage made of clay, / In twinkling of an eye."
preview | full record— Hammon, Jupiter (1711-c.1800)
Date: 1912
"Famous garden where the passion, / Bursting first disclosed the morn / Whose effulgent, beaming glory / Cleft old Chaos, brain and spine; / Lit up incense burning shrine, / In the heart of man for Eve."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
Date: 1938
"Listen, kids who die-- / Maybe, now, there will be no monument for you / Except in our hearts / Maybe your bodies’ll be lost in a swamp / Or a prison grave, or the potter’s field, / Or the rivers where you’re drowned like Leibknecht / But the day will come-- / Your are sure yourselves that it is...
preview | full record— Hughes, Langston (1902-1967))
Date: 1959
"Look, the fixed stars, all just alike / as lack-land atoms split apart, / and the Republic summons Ike, / the mausoleum in her heart."
preview | full record— Lowell, Robert (1917-1977)
Date: January 25, 2005
"I'm staring out into that vacuum again / From the back porch of my mind / The only thing that's alive, I'm all there is."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2012
"Once, borracho, at breakfast, / he said: The heart can only be broken / / once, like a window."
preview | full record— Corral, Eduardo C.