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: 1892
"I found the phrase to every thought / I ever had, but one; / And that defies me,--as a hand / Did try to chalk the sun // To races nurtured in the dark."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"It's past set down before the soul, / And lighted with a match, / Perusal to facilitate / Of its condensed despatch."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind, / Thy windy will to bear!"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: September, 1934
"When the mind is dark with the multiple shadows of facts, / There is no heat of the sun can warm the mind."
preview | full record— Miles, Josephine (1911-1985)
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...
preview | full record— Miles, Josephine (1911-1985)
Date: 1946
"his brain appears, throned in "fantastic triumph," / and shines through his hat / with jeweled works at work at intermeshing crowns, / lamé with lights."
preview | full record— Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)
Date: February 1, 2010
"Burn the body down / And, with it, out goes the pilot / Blue light of the mind."
preview | full record— Cruz, Cynthia
Date: 2010
"A thought to mind, so to the string / plucked, or touched, or bowed, the music is, / a wrinkling of the air as immaterial / and brief as sunlight glancing on a wave."
preview | full record— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)