Date: 1892
"Behold the atom I preferred / To all the lists of clay!"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"Futile the winds / To a heart in port,-- / Done with the compass, / Done with the chart."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind, / Thy windy will to bear!"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"The broadest land that grows / Is not so ample as the breast / These emerald seams enclose."
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 brain 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: 1959, 1964
"run your finger along your no-moss mind / that's not a thought that's soot"
preview | full record— O'Hara, Francis Russell "Frank" (1926-1966)
Date: 1988
"Mind in its purest play is like some bat / That beats about in caverns all alone, / Contriving by a kind of senseless wit / Not to conclude against a wall of stone."
preview | full record— Wilbur, Richard (1921- )
Date: December 2009
"Like an oyster / That cloisters a spoil of pearls, / Untouched— // The heart that’s had / Enough / Stays shut."
preview | full record— Essbaum, Jill Alexander