Date: 1845
"Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, / Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before."
preview | full record— Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Date: December 1847
"These were days when my heart was volcanic / As the scoriac rivers that roll-- / As the lavas that restlessly roll / Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek / In the ultimate climes of the pole."
preview | full record— Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Date: 1855
"This is the tasteless water of souls .... this the true sustenance."
preview | full record— Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Date: 1865
"Lilac and star and bird, twined with the chant of my soul, / With the holders holding my hand, nearing the call of the bird, / There in the fragrant pines, and the cedars dusk and dim."
preview | full record— Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Date: 1873
"There thou sittest in thy wonted corner / Lone and awful in thy darkened mind."
preview | full record— Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
Date: 1893
"Thy mind is like a crystal brook / Wherein clean creatures live at ease / In sun-bright waves or shady nook."
preview | full record— Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1809)