#AmericanWriters
A Counterfeit– a Plated Person… I would not be - Whatever strata of Iniquity My Nature underlie - Truth is good Health - and Safet…
Some keep the Sabbath going to Ch… I keep it, staying at Home— With a Bobolink for a Chorister— And an Orchard, for a Dome— Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice…
416 A Murmur in the Trees—to note— Not loud enough—for Wind— A Star—not far enough to seek— Nor near enough—to find—
816 A Death blow is a Life blow to S… Who till they died, did not alive… Who had they lived, had died but w… They died, Vitality begun.
807 Expectation—is Contentment— Gain—Satiety— But Satiety—Conviction Of Necessity
588 I cried at Pity—not at Pain— I heard a Woman say “Poor Child”—and something in her… Convicted me—of me—
800 Two—were immortal twice— The privilege of few— Eternity—obtained—in Time— Reversed Divinity’—
622 To know just how He suffered—woul… To know if any Human eyes were ne… To whom He could entrust His wave… Until it settle broad—on Paradise…
18 The Gentian weaves her fringes— The Maple’s loom is red— My departing blossoms Obviate parade.
854 Banish Air from Air— Divide Light if you dare— They’ll meet While Cubes in a Drop
241 I like a look of Agony, Because I know it’s true— Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate, a Throe—
The Face we choose to miss - Be it but for a Day As absent as a Hundred Years, When it has rode away.
497 He strained my faith— Did he find it supple? Shook my strong trust— Did it then—yield?
Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee,
695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—