Date: 1867
"This book by any yet unread, / I leave for you when I am dead, / That being gone, here you may find / What was your living mother's mind."
preview | full record— Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
Date: 1890
"We noticed smallest things, / Things overlooked before, / By this great light upon our minds / Italicized, as 't were."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1912
"Who does not harbor in his breast / The fruitage of forbidden things / Culled from beauty's lips and heart, / And folded in between the leaves / Of memory's roll of reveries."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
Date: 1990
"The soul too / is a debasement / of a text, but, thus, it / acquires salience, although a / human salience, but / inimitable, and, hence, memorable."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)