Date: 1892
"Behold the atom I preferred / To all the lists of clay!"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / One need not be a house; / The brainĀ has corridors surpassing / Material place."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"Winds of summer fields / Recollect the way,-- / Instinct picking up the key / Dropped by memory."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: November 1914
"All my thoughts are slow and brown."
preview | full record— Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
Date: 1922
"I plucked my soul out of its secret place, / And held it to the mirror of my eye, / To see it like a star against the sky, / A twitching body quivering in space, / A spark of passion shining on my face."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1922
"The joy in your maturity at length, / The peace that filled my soul like cooling wine, / When you responded to my tender strength, / And pressed your heart exulting into mine."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1922
"How shall I with such memories of you / In coarser forms of love fruition find? / No, I would rather like a ghost pursue / The fairy phantoms of my lonely mind."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: September, 1934
"This weight of knowledge dark on the brain is never / To be burnt out like fever, // But will slowly, with speech to tell the way and ease it, / Will sink into the blood, and warm, and slowly / Move in the veins, and murmur, and come at length / To the tongue's tip and the finger's tip most lowl...
preview | full record— Miles, Josephine (1911-1985)
Date: 1942
"The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind, / If one may say so."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Date: 1946
"Icebergs behoove the soul / (both being self-made from elements least visible) / to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible."
preview | full record— Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)