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Psychodia Platonica; or, A Platonick Song of the Soul

Psychodia Platonica; or, A Platonick Song of the Soul (Philosophicall Poems, 1647) Inferred

Henry More (1614–1687) · Philosophicall Poems, 1647

InferredFuller transcribes approximately 20 lines of verse (in old-fashioned orthography with capitalised Soul, Spenserian-adjacent stanza form) as a kind of epigraph or motto to her personal meditation.

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Documented 1841

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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On Dreams and Sorrow

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“Silent Secesse, vast Solitude / Deep-searching thoughts often renewed, / Stiffe conflict 'gainst importunate vice; / That daily doth the Soul entice / From her high throne of circling light / To plunge her in infernal night.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Dreams and Sorrow." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box 3, Folder 132.

Inferred Fuller transcribes approximately 20 lines of verse (in old-fashioned orthography with capitalised Soul, Spenserian-adjacent stanza form) as a kind of epigraph or motto to her personal meditation.