#AmericanWriters
401 What Soft—Cherubic Creatures— These Gentlewomen are— One would as soon assault a Plush… Or violate a Star—
834 Before He comes we weigh the Time… ’Tis Heavy and ’tis Light. When He depart, an Emptiness Is the prevailing Freight.
467 We do not play on Graves— Because there isn’t Room— Besides—it isn’t even—it slants And People come—
708 I sometimes drop it, for a Quick— The Thought to be alive— Anonymous Delight to know— And Madder—to conceive—
24 There is a morn by men unseen— Whose maids upon remoter green Keep their Seraphic May— And all day long, with dance and g…
Part Five: The Single Hound XLIX The duties of the Wind are few— To cast the ships, at Sea, Establish March, the Floods escor…
To die—takes just a little while— They say it doesn't hurt— It's only fainter—by degrees— And then—it's out of sight— A darker Ribbon—for a Day—
XLVII IS Heaven a physician? They say that He can heal; But medicine posthumous Is unavailable.
276 Many a phrase has the English lan… I have heard but one— Low as the laughter of the Cricke… Loud, as the Thunder’s Tongue—
Of all the souls that stand create I have elected one. When sense from spirit files away, And subterfuge is done; When that which is and that which…
Volcanoes be in Sicily And South America I judge from my Geography - Volcanos nearer here A Lava step at any time
1763 Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.
LXV GOOD night! which put the candle… A jealous zephyr, not a doubt. Ah! friend, you little knew How long at that celestial wick
Of so divine a Loss We enter but the Gain, Indemnity for Loneliness That such a Bliss has been.
146 On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair—
