How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild terror, and covered her face with her hands?

VOA: special.2009.04.18

They fired cannons as the city of Washington was waking to a new day.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Each one smiled in turn without waking.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

I live with Him -- I see his face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown-- Death's single privacy Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn -- If One wake at Midnight - better -- Dreaming -- of the Dawn -- This is my letter to the World That never wrote to me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty In those years, Dickinson seems to have found her "voice" as a poet.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

"I guess it was a process of waking up to what I was actually doing and just as I am helping set up all these memorials out here, I think back to some of the things that were part of my day to day life in the military even before I got to Iraq, just how some of our battle cries would be things like kill them all."

VOA: standard.2010.03.20