Date: 1820
"She stood: he pass'd, shut up in mysteries, / His mind wrapp'd like his mantle."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1828
"Come, gallants, the gay and the graceful, / With hearts like the light plumes ye wear; / Eyes all but divine light our revel, / Like the stars in whose beauty they share."
preview | full record— Landon, Laetitia Elizabeth [L.E.L.] (1802-1838)
Date: 1837
"As these white robes are soil'd and dark, / To yonder shining ground; / As this pale taper's earthly spark, / To yonder argent round; / So shows my soul before the Lamb, / My spirit before Thee; / So in mine earthly house I am, / To that I hope to be."
preview | full record— Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)
Date: 1892
"The thought beneath so slight a film / Is more distinctly seen,-- / As laces just reveal the surge, / Or mists the Apennine."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"The vane a little to the east / Scares muslin souls away"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: September 7, 1923
"It was caparison of mind and cloud / And something given to make whole among / The ruses that were shattered by the large."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)