Date: 1854
"While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?"
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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: October 10, 1869
"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."
preview | full record— Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Date: 1890
"Imps in eager caucus / Raffle for my soul."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1890
"I've known her from an ample nation / Choose one; / Then close the valves of her attention / Like stone."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1890
"The sweeping up the heart, / And putting love away / We shall not want to use again / Until eternity."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1890
"Except thyself may be / Thine enemy; / Captivity is consciousness, / So 's liberty."
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Date: 1892
"Least village boasts its blacksmith, / Whose anvil's even din / Stands symbol for the finer forge / That soundless tugs within, // Refining these impatient ores / With hammer and with blaze, / Until the designated light / Repudiate the forge."
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Date: 1892
"The thought beneath so slight a film / Is more distinctly seen,-- / As laces just reveal the surge, / Or mists the Apennine."
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Date: 1892
"The angels, happening that way, / This dusty heart espied."
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