#Americans
Act first, scene first. A study.… Half cell, half salon, opulent yet… Rare books, low-shelved, yet far a… Of common man to compass or to cra… Some slight relief of pamphlets th…
It was spring the first time that… moved in Next door, just as skating was ove… For the fence in our back yard was… through the slat,
O joy of creation To be! O rapture to fly And be free! Be the battle lost or won,
Where West Point crouches, and wi… Turns the whole river eastward thr… Whose jutting crags, half silver,… Like bossy bucklers of Leonidas; Where buttressed low against the s…
‘Who comes?’ The sentry’s warning… Rings sharply on the evening air: Who comes? The challenge: no repl… Yet something motions there. A woman, by those graceful folds;
Bunny, lying in the grass, Saw the shining column pass; Saw the starry banner fly, Saw the chargers fret and fume, Saw the flapping hat and plume,—
Beautiful! Sir, you may say so. T… Is thar, old gal,—Chiquita, my da… Feel of that neck, sir,—thar’s vel… you vixen! Whoa! I say. Jack, trot her out;…
By scattered rocks and turbid wate… By furrowed glade and dell, To feverish men thy calm, sweet fa… Thou stayest them to tell The delicate thought that cannot f…
My Papa knows you, and he says yo… books; But I never read nothing you wrot… looks. So I guess you’re like me when I…
DEAD AT PITTSFIELD, MASS… O poor Romancer—thou whose printe… Filled with rude speech and ruder… Was given to heroes in whose vulga… No trace appears of gentler ways a…
(CEMETERY, SAN FRANCISCO… This is that hill of awe That Persian Sindbad saw,— The mount magnetic; And on its seaward face,
Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar,
(NORTHERN MEXICO, 1640) As you look from the plaza at Leo… You can see her house, but the vie… From the porch of the church where… Where much of her past still lives…
‘Crying!’ Of course I am crying,… too, If people were telling such storie… Oh yes, you can laugh if you want… how,
(A CHEMICAL NARRATIVE) Certain facts which serve to expla… The physical charms of Miss Addie… Who, as the common reports obtain, Surpassed in complexion the lily a…