Date: 1819
"Philosophers, anatomists of soul, / Ye have display'd a fearful spectacle, / The human heart exposed in nakedness!"
preview | full record— Anster, John (1793-1867)
Date: 1820
"We'll make his temple in our breast, / And offer up a tear."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1840-1
"Proud were my soul, to see its humble thought / On painting's mirror so divinely caught;"
preview | full record— Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)
Date: 1898
"Silently we went round and round, / And through each hollow mind / The Memory of dreadful things / Rushed like a dreadful wind, / And Horror stalked before each man, / And Terror crept behind."
preview | full record— Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900)
Date: 1919
"HANDS, do what you're bid; / Bring the balloon of the mind / That bellies and drags in the wind / Into its narrow shed."
preview | full record— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)
Date: 1929
"And Shelley had his towers, thought's crowned powers he called them once."
preview | full record— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)
Date: 1929
"Goldsmith deliberately sipping at the honey-pot of his mind."
preview | full record— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)
Date: 1929
"Such fullness in that quarter overflows / And falls into the basin of the mind / That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind, / For intellect no longer knows / Is from the Ought, or Knower from the Known."
preview | full record— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)
Date: 1980
"The back of the mind is a small hotel / And when the residents go on picnics / Or take buckets and spades down to the sea / The betrayals begin."
preview | full record— Longley, Michael (b. 1939)