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In a poem by this author, the speaker “[drops] down, and down” after a “Plank of Reason” breaks. In another poem by this author, the speaker claims, “sore must be the storm / That could abash” the title figure. “[The] Setting Sun” and “the Fields (10[1])of Gazing Grain” are passed by a (10[1])speaker (10[1])created by this (10[1])author, who, in another poem, described (10[1])a figure that “never… asked a crumb of me” and “perches in the soul.” (10[1])A poem by this author centers (-5[1])on a carriage ride with Immortality (10[1])and the title figure, who “kindly [stops]” for her. For 10 points, “‘Hope’ is the thing (10[1])with feathers” was written by what “Belle of Amherst” who also wrote (10[1])“Because I could not stop for Death?” ■END■

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