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In a poem by this author, the speaker “[drops] down, and down” after a “Plank of Reason” breaks. (10[2])In another poem by this author, the speaker claims, (10[1])“sore must be the storm (10[1])/ That could abash” the title figure. “[The] Setting Sun” and “the Fields of Gazing Grain” are passed by a speaker created by this author, who, in (10[1])another poem, described a figure that “never… asked a crumb of me” and “perches in the soul.” (10[2])A poem by this author centers on a carriage ride (10[1])with Immortality (10[1])and the title figure, who “kindly [stops]” for her. For (10[1])10 points, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” was written by what “Belle of Amherst” who also wrote “Because I could not stop for Death?” ■END■

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