#AmericanWriters
Presentiment is that long shadow o… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
Is it too late to touch you, Dear… We this moment knew - Love Marine and Love terrene - Love celestial too -
A House upon the Height— That Wagon never reached— No Dead, were ever carried down— No Peddler’s Cart—approached— Whose Chimney never smoked—
LXVII Presentment is that long shadow on… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
We like March, his shoes are purp… He is new and high; Makes he mud for dog and peddler, Makes he forest dry; Knows the adder’s tongue his comin…
789 On a Columnar Self— How ample to rely In Tumult—or Extremity— How good the Certainty
LXVII If I should die, And you should live, And time should gurgle on, And morn should beam,
Part One: Life LI IT tossed and tossed,— A little brig I knew,— O’ertook by blast,
A Cloud withdrew from the Sky Superior Glory be But that Cloud and its Auxiliarie… Are forever lost to me Had I but further scanned
92 My friend must be a Bird’— Because it flies! Mortal, my friend must be, Because it dies!
I bet with every Wind that blew Till Nature in chagrin Employed a Fact to visit me And scuttle my Balloon -
Shall I take thee, the Poet said To the propounded word? Be stationed with the Candidates Till I have finer tried— The Poet searched Philology
748 Autumn—overlooked my Knitting— Dyes—said He—have I— Could disparage a Flamingo— Show Me them—said I—
607 Of nearness to her sundered Thing… The Soul has special times— When Dimness—looks the Oddity— Distinctness—easy—se ems—
453 Love — thou art high — I cannot climb thee — But, were it Two — Who knows but we —