In a poem by this author, a bird taking flight is “rowed… softer Home– / Than Oars divide the Ocean.” This author described the “Sacrament of summer days!” and “last Communion in the Haze” in a different poem that describes birds’ “backward look” towards an end-of-summer sky as “A blue and gold mistake.” This author wrote about “the Chariots– pausing– / At her low Gate–” in a poem in which the title entity “selects her own society.” This author wrote a different poem in which the speaker hears the title entity “in the chillest land– / And on the strangest Sea.” This author wrote “sore must be the storm” that silences “the tune without the words… that kept so many warm” in a poem about a bird who “perches in the soul.” For 10 points, name this reclusive poet who wrote “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” ■END■
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson (The first and second poems are “A Bird, Came Down the Walk” and “These Are the Days When Birds Come Back.”)
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