Date: 1891
"And it did store the mind with furniture -- / In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber, / But morticed well, and fashioned to endure, / Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Date: 1892
"So, safer, guess, with just my soul / Upon the window-pane / Where other creatures put their eyes, / Incautious of the sun."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"A deed knocks first at thought, / And then it knocks at will."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"It then goes out an act, / Or is entombed so still / That only to the ear of God / Its doom is audible."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"The body grows outside,-- / The more convenient way,-- / That if the spirit like to hide, / Its temple stands alway // Ajar, secure, inviting."
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: 1947
"Thoughts talk to me within / My mind, that shuttered room."
preview | full record— Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)
Date: December 2009
"To keep your cell the way you keep your soul, / Untidy-minded, neither soiled nor sold / For next to nothing, a treasury of old / Notions like the notes of a piano-roll / Which cannot improvise though it knows a whole / Repertoire, what ought one to withhold?"
preview | full record— Hine, Daryl (b. 1936)
Date: December 2009
"This stanza become a catacomb or tomb / That serves as a temporary safe deposit / Vault for your perduring lost & found / Mind, which articulately could presume / To ask of being what could cause it, / A question as unanswerable as profound."
preview | full record— Hine, Daryl (b. 1936)
Date: 2012
"Once, borracho, at breakfast, / he said: The heart can only be broken / / once, like a window."
preview | full record— Corral, Eduardo C.