#AmericanWriters
721 Behind Me’—dips Eternity’— Before Me’—Immortality’— Myself’—the Term between’— Death but the Drift of Eastern G…
933 Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words
The inundation of the Spring Enlarges every soul - It sweeps the tenement away But leaves the Water whole - In which the soul at first estrang…
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry....
226 Should you but fail at—Sea— In sight of me— Or doomed lie— Next Sun—to die—
68 Ambition cannot find him. Affection doesn’t know How many leagues of nowhere Lie between them now.
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was la… In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed…
They shut me up in Prose— As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet— Because they liked me “still”— Still! Could themself have peeped…
498 I envy Seas, whereon He rides— I envy Spokes of Wheels Of Chariots, that Him convey— I envy Crooked Hills
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
865 He outstripped Time with but a Bo… He outstripped Stars and Sun And then, unjaded, challenged God In presence of the Throne.
603 He found my Being—set it up— Adjusted it to place— Then carved his name—upon it— And bade it to the East
540 I took my Power in my Hand— And went against the World— ’Twas not so much as David—had— But I—was twice as bold—
286 That after Horror — that ’twas us… That passed the mouldering Pier — Just as the Granite Crumb let go… Our Savior, by a Hair —
480 “Why do I love” You, Sir? Because— The Wind does not require the Gra… To answer—Wherefore when He pass