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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, “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, (10[1])described a figure that “never… (10[1])asked (10[1])a crumb of me” and “perches in the soul.” (10[2])A poem (10[1])by this author centers on a carriage ride with Immortality (10[2])and the title figure, who (10[1])“kindly [stops]” for her. For 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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