Date: 1887
"A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: 1890
"Imps in eager caucus / Raffle for my soul."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1890
"I've known her from an ample nation / Choose one; / Then close the valves of her attention / Like stone."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1890
"The sweeping up the heart, / And putting love away / We shall not want to use again / Until eternity."
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Date: 1890
"Except thyself may be / Thine enemy; / Captivity is consciousness, / So 's liberty."
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Date: 1891
"For what is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"
preview | full record— Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900)
Date: 1892
"Least village boasts its blacksmith, / Whose anvil's even din / Stands symbol for the finer forge / That soundless tugs within, // Refining these impatient ores / With hammer and with blaze, / Until the designated light / Repudiate the forge."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"The thought beneath so slight a film / Is more distinctly seen,-- / As laces just reveal the surge, / Or mists the Apennine."
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Date: 1892
"The angels, happening that way, / This dusty heart espied."
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Date: 1892
"That is the manufacturing spot, / And will at home and well."
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