Date: 1855
"This is the tasteless water of souls .... this the true sustenance."
preview | full record— Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Date: 1890
"Have you got a brook in your little heart, / Where bashful flowers blow, / And blushing birds go down to drink, / And shadows tremble so?"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1890
"The wizard-fingers never rest, / The purple brook within the breast / Still chafes its narrow bed."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1893
"Thy mind is like a crystal brook / Wherein clean creatures live at ease / In sun-bright waves or shady nook."
preview | full record— Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1809)