Date: 1803
The muse "beams a visionary day: / Bright as the magic torch she early gave / To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave."
preview | full record— Hunter [née Home], Anne (1742-1821)
Date: 1808
"With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies."
preview | full record— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)
Date: 1890
"Imps in eager caucus / Raffle for my soul."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1890
"I've known her from an ample nation / Choose one; / Then close the valves of her attention / Like stone."
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Date: 1890
"The sweeping up the heart, / And putting love away / We shall not want to use again / Until eternity."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1890
"Except thyself may be / Thine enemy; / Captivity is consciousness, / So 's liberty."
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Date: 1892
"Least village boasts its blacksmith, / Whose anvil's even din / Stands symbol for the finer forge / That soundless tugs within, // Refining these impatient ores / With hammer and with blaze, / Until the designated light / Repudiate the forge."
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Date: 1892
"The thought beneath so slight a film / Is more distinctly seen,-- / As laces just reveal the surge, / Or mists the Apennine."
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Date: 1892
"The angels, happening that way, / This dusty heart espied."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"That is the manufacturing spot, / And will at home and well."
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