Letter to Mary Haven | Emily Dickinson, 1859
Max Ernst, Two sisters, 1926 13 Feburary 1859 Dear Mrs Haven. Your remembrance surprises me. I hardly feel entitled to...
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Poem 135 | A poem by Emily Dickinson, 1859
Penny Slinger, Who Turns Her Back, 1977, collage Water, is taught by thirst. Land—by the Oceans passed. Transport—by throe— Peace—by...
On [:] A Garden | Charlotte Brontë, 1853
August Macke, Our garden with Blooming Discounts, 1912 ''Behind the house at the Rue Fossette there was a garden —...
Days [ ) Aplomb | Gustave Flaubert, 1856
Prevost, The piano lesson, girl playing the piano with a doll, 1886 illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 2284, Volume...
Days [ ) Heaven | Henry David Thoreau, 1854
Masao Yamamoto , Tori “Heaven is under our feet is well as over our heads." Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854...
Poems on Fragments of Paper | Emily Dickinson, 1830-86
“But are not all facts. Dreams as soon as we put them behind us.’’ Emily Dickinson, daguerrotype, c. 1847
|/| Bartleby, the Scrivener | A short story by Herman Melville, 1853
The Piazza Tales, 1856 ...
Days [ ) Outlet | Leo Tolstoy, 1859
Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren, 1909 “I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I...
The Secret Of the Sea | A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1850)
Cy Twombly, Poems to the Sea, 1959 Ah! what pleasant visions...
Poem of Perfect Miracles | A poem by Walt Whitman, 1856
. Realism is mine, my miracles, Take all of the rest—take freely—I keep but my own—I give only of them,...