Date: 1892
"The angels, happening that way, / This dusty heartĀ espied."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"That is the manufacturing spot, / And will at home and well."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"Behold the atom I preferred / To all the lists of clay!"
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Date: 1892
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / One need not be a house; / The brainĀ has corridors surpassing / Material place."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"Winds of summer fields / Recollect the way,-- / Instinct picking up the key / Dropped by memory."
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Date: November 1914
"All my thoughts are slow and brown."
preview | full record— Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
Date: September, 1934
"This weight of knowledge dark on the brain is never / To be burnt out like fever, // But will slowly, with speech to tell the way and ease it, / Will sink into the blood, and warm, and slowly / Move in the veins, and murmur, and come at length / To the tongue's tip and the finger's tip most lowl...
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Date: 1944; 2018
"My desk is the monument to my mind, and by the appearance of it, my mind must have intimate contact with garbage collectors."
preview | full record— O'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)
Date: 1946
"Icebergs behoove the soul / (both being self-made from elements least visible) / to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible."
preview | full record— Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)