Date: April 26 1870

"You'd not believe by what strange roads / Thought travels, when your beauty goads / A man to-night to think of toads."

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Date: 1888

"It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."

— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)

Date: 1972

"as the Whale dives / snapping our mind / like a lifeboat ?"

— Plumb, David

Date: 1999

"The insomniac's brain is a choo-choo train."

— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)