Round 1: Tossup 10

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. (10[1])“[The] Setting Sun” and “the Fields of Gazing Grain” are passed by a speaker created by this author, who, in another poem, described a figure that “never… asked a crumb of me” and “perches in (10[1])the soul.” A poem by this author centers on a carriage ride with Immortality and the title figure, who (10[1])“kindly [stops]” for her. For 10 points, “‘Hope’ (10[1])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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