Date: 1850
"My imagination was a tarnished mirror. It would not reflect, or only with miserable dimness, the figures with which I did my best to people it."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Date: 1873
"There thou sittest in thy wonted corner / Lone and awful in thy darkened mind."
preview | full record— Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)