Date: 1869
One's immortal deeds may be "Engrav'd ... / On ev'ry heart in this braid land"
preview | full record— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)
Date: 1869
On a tree's "fair stem were mony names, which now nae mair I see, / But they're engraven on my heart--forgot they ne'er can be!"
preview | full record— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)
Date: Late Autumn, 1882
"A letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the mind alone, without corporeal friend?"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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: 1900
"My mind felt like a measure with the feet marked on it, and no matter what I thought of that night, it had to be measured with the same rule.”
preview | full record— Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921)