#AmericanWriters
A Word dropped careless on a Page May stimulate an eye When folded in perpetual seam The Wrinkled Maker lie Infection in the sentence breeds
845 Be Mine the Doom— Sufficient Fame— To perish in Her Hand!
702 A first Mute Coming— In the Stranger’s House— A first fair Going— When the Bells rejoice—
765 You constituted Time— I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself— ’Twas therefore Deity
The Wind took up the Northern Th… And piled them in the south - Then gave the East unto the West And opening his mouth The four Divisions of the Earth
XXXIX I MEANT to have but modest need… Such as content, and heaven; Within my income these could lie, And life and I keep even.
267 Did we disobey Him? Just one time! Charged us to forget Him— But we couldn’t learn!
555 Trust in the Unexpected— By this—was William Kidd Persuaded of the Buried Gold— As One had testified—
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy.
30 Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town?
767 To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone— When One has failed to stop them— Is Human—but Divine
If Nature smiles - the Mother mu… I’m sure, at many a whim Of Her eccentric Family - Is She so much to blame?
617 Don’t put up my Thread and Needle… I’ll begin to Sew When the Birds begin to whistle— Better Stitches—so—
648 Promise This—When You be Dying— Some shall summon Me— Mine belong Your latest Sighing— Mine—to Belt Your Eye—
665 Dropped into the Ether Acre— Wearing the Sod Gown— Bonnet of Everlasting Laces— Brooch—frozen on—