Date: April 1861
"My heart is like a singing bird / Whose nest is in a water'd shoot."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)
Date: 1892
"Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul, / And sings the tune without the words, / And never stops at all, // And sweetest in the gale is heard."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)