#AmericanWriters
LVI Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency!
284 The Drop, that wrestles in the Se… Forgets her own locality— As I—toward Thee— She knows herself an incense small…
The sky is low, the clouds are mea… A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day
718 I meant to find Her when I came— Death—had the same design— But the Success—was His—it seems— And the Surrender—Mine—
I saw the wind within her I knew it blew for me '— But she must buy my shelter I asked Humility
691 Would you like summer? Taste of o… Spices? Buy here! Ill! We have berries, for the par… Weary! Furloughs of down!
116 I had some things that I called m… And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities.
147 Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast— Grant God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest!
The dying need but little, dear,— A glass of water’s all, A flower’s unobtrusive face To punctuate the wall, A fan, perhaps, a friend’s regret,
Between My Country—and the Other… There is a Sea— But Flowers—negotiate between us— As Ministry.
If ever the lid gets off my head And lets the brain away The fellow will go where he belong… Without a hint from me, And the world– if the world be lo…
139 Soul, Wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost indeed— But tens have won an all—
I held a Jewel in my fingers’— And went to sleep’— The day was warm, and winds were p… I said 'Twill keep’— I woke’—and chid my honest fingers…
97 The rainbow never tells me That gust and storm are by, Yet is she more convincing Than Philosophy.
408 Unit, like Death, for Whom? True, like the Tomb, Who tells no secret Told to Him—