Date: 1905
"'Know then, I cannot from my breast expel / 'A strong Impression fated there to dwell"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1922
"All night, through the eternity of night, / Pain was my portion though I could not feel. / Deep in my humbled heart you ground your heel, / Till I was reft of even my inner light, / Till reason from my mind had taken flight, / And all my world went whirling in a reel."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: December, 1954
"My mind, a vagrant, dreams on the shining Alps."
preview | full record— Scott, Peter Dale (b. January 11, 1929)
Date: 1980
"The back of the mind is a small hotel / And when the residents go on picnics / Or take buckets and spades down to the sea / The betrayals begin."
preview | full record— Longley, Michael (b. 1939)