#AmericanWriters
The Hills erect their Purple Hea… The Rivers lean to see Yet Man has not of all the Throng A Curiosity.
LX A SHADY friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.
176 I’m the little “Heart’s Ease”! I don’t care for pouting skies! If the Butterfly delay Can I, therefore, stay away?
994 Partake as doth the Bee, Abstemiously. The Rose is an Estate— In Sicily.
This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,- The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty Her message is committed
There comes a warning like a spy A shorter breath of Day A stealing that is not a stealth And Summers are away
690 Victory comes late— And is held low to freezing lips— Too rapt with frost To take it—
14 One Sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There’s only one recorded, But both belong to me.
861 Split the Lark—and you’ll find th… Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled… Scantilly dealt to the Summer Mor… Saved for your Ear when Lutes be…
893 Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb— Or Dome of Worm— Or Porch of Gnome—
66 So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise— Hidden away, cunningly, From saga…
472 Except the Heaven had come so nea… So seemed to choose My Door— The Distance would not haunt me s… I had not hoped—before—
I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come,
Nature rarer uses Yellow Than another Hue. Saves she all of that for Sunsets Prodigal of Blue Spending Scarlet, like a Woman
242 When we stand on the tops of Thin… And like the Trees, look down— The smoke all cleared away from it… And Mirrors on the scene—