Date: June, 1793
"FANCY, sportive goddess, hail! / Fleeting as the vernal gale, / Hail! thou dear illusive power / Changing with the swift-wing'd hour; / Now despairing, now reviving, / Now with tenfold vigour thriving, / Now tormenting, now delighting, / Now in midst of battle fighting."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1817
"The thought thereof is awful, sweet, and holy, / Chacing away all worldliness and folly; / Coming sometimes like fearful claps of thunder, Or the low rumblings earth's regions under; / And sometimes like a gentle whispering / Of all the secrets of some wond'rous thing / That breathes about u...
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1850
"For though I was most passionately moved / And yielded to all changes of the scene / With an obsequious promptness, yet the storm / Passed not beyond the suburbs of the mind"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
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: 1898
"Silently we went round and round, / And through each hollow mind / The Memory of dreadful things / Rushed like a dreadful wind, / And Horror stalked before each man, / And Terror crept behind."
preview | full record— Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900)
Date: 2004
"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)