#Americans
I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wr… Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the la… I, legalist, inexorable and bitter… Driving the jury to hang the madma…
I was the milliner Talked about, lied about, Mother of Dora, Whose strange disappearance Was charged to her rearing.
I was the first fruits of the batt… When I felt the bullet enter my h… I wished I had staid at home and… For stealing the hogs of Curl Tre… Instead of running away and joinin…
Where is my boy, my boy— In what far part of the world? The boy I loved best of all in th… I, the teacher, the old maid, the… Who made them all my children.
I have two monuments besides this… One, the house I built on the hil… With its spires, bay windows, and… The other, the lake-front in Chic… Where the railroad keeps a switchi…
I, born in Weimar Of a mother who was French And German father, a most learned… Orphaned at fourteen years, Became a dancer, known as Russian…
Did you ever see an alligator Come up to the air from the mud, Staring blindly under the full gla… Have you seen the stabled horses a… Tremble and start back at the sigh…
They would have lynched me Had I not been secretly hurried a… To the jail at Peoria. And yet I was going peacefully ho… Carrying my jug, a little drunk,
Not character, not fortitude, not… Were mine, the which the village t… In bearing with my wife, while pre… Doing the work God chose for me. I loathed her as a termagant, as a…
With our hearts like drifting suns… As often before, the April fields… Silkened over with viewless gauze… Under the cliff, our trysting plac… Where the brook turns! Had we but…
After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, th… The power to interpret glances, si… The pauses in momentous transforma…
I bought every kind of machine tha… Grinders, shellers, planters, mowe… Mills and rakes and ploughs and th… And all of them stood in the rain… Getting rusted, warped and battere…
I could not run or play In boyhood. In manhood I could only sip the c… Not drink— For scarlet-fever left my heart di…
Dear Jane! dear winsome Jane! How you stole in the room (where… In your nurse’s cap and linen cuff… And took my hand and said with a s… “You are not so ill—you’ll soon be…
Only the chemist can tell, and not… What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who can tell How men and women will interact