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“mind” + unmindful across the centuries

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pre-1500 1 / 28 BCE 1 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 3 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 6 / 162 1800s 17 / 683 1850s 11 / 939 1900s 14 / 1115 1950s 1 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 11 with this theme Show all eras

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

It dropped so low
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It dropped so low

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Memory
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Memory

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich · English

Thomas Bailey Aldrich portrait

11 November 1836 - 19 March 1907 (~71)

One Sea-Side Grave
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One Sea-Side Grave

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Spleen
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Spleen

by Charles Baudelaire · French

Charles Baudelaire portrait

9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867 (~46)

The Brain
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The Brain

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Lost Thought
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The Lost Thought

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
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The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

by Francis William Bourdillon · English

Francis William Bourdillon portrait

22 March 1852 - 13 January 1921 (~69)

The Phantom
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The Phantom

by Thomas Hardy · English

Thomas Hardy portrait

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Thought
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Thought

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

Arthur O'Shaughnessy portrait

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

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