Date: 1825
The mind may be sick and impatient
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
The heart may be naked and unarmoured
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1842
"E'en the mind's eye a glassy mirror shews, / And far too deeply her bold pencil draws"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"Think'st thou fond memory will not bear / Thy image through the drowning tear? / The mind's eye then shall take the place, / And wander o'er thy much lov'd face."
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1892
"Remorse is cureless,—the disease / Not even God can heal; / For 't is his institution,-- / The complement of hell."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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: 1995
"Gradually I understood that these were naked glimpses of my soul."
preview | full record— Carson, Anne (b. 1951)
Date: 1995
"Mornings when I meditated / I was presented with a nude glimpse of my lone soul, / not the complex mysteries of love and hate."
preview | full record— Carson, Anne (b. 1951)
Date: 2002
"Of the friend watching him leave remembering / the story of her body / with his once and the stories of their children / made with other people and how his mind went on / pressing hers like a body."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Date: 2006
"If our thoughts / and feelings were soup or stew, would they taste / of bile when we're defeated and be flavored / faintly with grace on better days?"
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)