Date: 1842
A "thought of shame" may "Bedim the mental eye with film impure"
preview | full record— De Vere, Sir Aubrey (1788-1846)
Date: 1859
" Not all this world's gay hopes, nor present charms, / Nor parents tears, nor a fond husband's arms, / Could stamp the least impression on her mind, / Or fix to earth a soul for heav'n design'd."
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1859
"(For sure thy sire had not a heart of steel)"
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1862
"Through all our proceedings let reason bear rule"
preview | full record— Mather, Joseph (1737-1804)
Date: 1869
One's immortal deeds may be "Engrav'd ... / On ev'ry heart in this braid land"
preview | full record— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)
Date: 1869
On a tree's "fair stem were mony names, which now nae mair I see, / But they're engraven on my heart--forgot they ne'er can be!"
preview | full record— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)
Date: November, 1930
"What's in your mind, my dove, my coney; / Do thoughts grow like feathers, the dead end of life; / Is it making of love or counting of money, / Or raid on the jewels, the plans of a thief?"
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
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: 1964
"Industrious, affable, having brain on fire, / Henry perplexed himself."
preview | full record— Berryman, John [b. John Allyn Smith, Jr.] (1914-1972)
Date: 1989
"we all rose / every black one of us still alive / and went to meet that man / the same man who had erased our blackboard, crashed our computer heads, / burned our books and cooked our elders in superstitions and trivial / remembrances slave traders called fairytales from when massa was animals"
preview | full record— Kalamu ya Salaam (b. 1947)