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In a poem by this author, the speaker “[drops] down, and down” after a “Plank of Reason” breaks. (10[1])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 of (10[1])Gazing Grain” are passed (10[1])by a speaker created by this author, (-5[1])who, in 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 with Immortality (10[1])and the title figure, who (10[1])“kindly [stops]” for her. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, “‘Hope’ is the thing (10[1])with feathers” was written by what “Belle of Amherst” who also wrote “Because I could not stop for Death?” ■END■ (10[1])

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