#AmericanWriters
191 The Skies can’t keep their secret… They tell it to the Hills— The Hills just tell the Orchards— And they—the Daffodils!
600 It troubled me as once I was— For I was once a Child— Concluding how an Atom—fell— And yet the Heavens—held—
This was a Poet —It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings — And Attar so immense From the familiar species
No rack can torture me, My soul’s at liberty Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw,
A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him,—did you not, His notice sudden is. The grass divides as with a comb,
Glory is that bright tragic thing That for an instant Means Dominion - Warms some poor name That never felt the Sun,
To the bright east she flies, Brothers of Paradise Remit her home, Without a change of wings, Or Love’s convenient things,
161 A feather from the Whippoorwill That everlasting—sings! Whose galleries—are Sunrise— Whose Opera—the Springs—
334 All the letters I can write Are not fair as this— Syllables of Velvet— Sentences of Plush,
228 Blazing in Gold and quenching in… Leaping like Leopards to the Sky Then at the feet of the old Horiz… Laying her spotted Face to die
657 I dwell in Possibility— A fairer House than Prose— More numerous of Windows— Superior—for Doors—
FORBIDDEN fruit a flavor has That lawful orchards mocks; How luscious lies the pea within The pod that Duty locks!
A darting fear—a pomp—a tear— A waking on a morn To find that what one waked for, Inhales the different dawn.
387 The sweetest Heresy received That Man and Woman know— Each Other’s Convert— Though the Faith accommodate but…
768 When I hoped, I recollect Just the place I stood— At a Window facing West— Roughest Air—was good—