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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 (10[1])by this author, (10[1])the speaker claims, “sore must be the storm / That (10[1])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 another poem, described a figure that “never… asked a crumb of me” and “perches in the soul.” (10[1])A poem (-5[1])by this author centers on a carriage ride with Immortality and the title figure, who “kindly [stops]” for her. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])“‘Hope’ is the thing 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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