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The Shrine

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 186

By H.D.

A Bird came down the Walk

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 199

By Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 04

By Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 45

By Emily Dickinson

Before I got my eye put out

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 55

By Emily Dickinson

Denial—is the only fact

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 142

By Emily Dickinson

Good Morning — Midnight

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 126

By Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 99

By Emily Dickinson

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 164

By Emily Dickinson

I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 36

By Emily Dickinson

I started Early—Took my Dog—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 44

By Emily Dickinson

In this short Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 73

By Emily Dickinson

It was not Death, for I stood up

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 121

By Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is divinest Sense

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 137

By Emily Dickinson

Of Bronze—and Blaze—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 58

By Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 54

By Emily Dickinson

Tell all the truth but tell it slant

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 27

By Emily Dickinson

The Heart asks Pleasure first

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 13

By Emily Dickinson

There’s a certain Slant of light

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 96

By Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the World

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 34

By Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 16

By Emily Dickinson

We grow accustomed to the Dark—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 82

By Emily Dickinson

You cannot put a Fire out—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 123

By Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 78

By Emily Dickinson

Read by Juliet Stevenson

A Dialogue Between Sir Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 59

By John Donne

A Fever

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 100

By John Donne

A Hymn to God the Father

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 138

By John Donne

Read by Simon Russell Beale

A Jet Ring Sent

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 05

By John Donne

A Lecture upon the Shadow

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 52

By John Donne

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 65

By John Donne

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 17

By John Donne

A Valediction of My Name, in the Window

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 38

By John Donne

A Valediction of Weeping

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 35

By John Donne

Air and Angels

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 95

By John Donne

Break of Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 195

By John Donne

Community

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 01

By John Donne

Confined Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 67

By John Donne

Farewell to Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 50

By John Donne

Lovers’ Infiniteness

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 41

By John Donne

Love’s Alchemy

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 18

By John Donne

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