#AmericanWriters
The Sea said 'Come’ to the Brook… The Brook said 'Let me grow’ - The Sea said 'Then you will be a… I want a Brook - Come now’! The Sea said 'Go’ to the Sea -
“I want”—it pleaded—All its life— I want—was chief it said When Skill entreated it—the last— And when so newly dead— I could not deem it late—to hear
Luck is not chance It’s Toil Fortune’s expensive smile Is earned The Father of the Mine
464 The power to be true to You, Until upon my face The Judgment push his Picture— Presumptuous of Your Place—
Your Riches—taught me—Poverty. Myself—a Millionaire In little Wealths, as Girls could… Till broad as Buenos Ayre— You drifted your Dominions—
190 He was weak, and I was strong—the… So He let me lead him in— I was weak, and He was strong the… So I let him lead me—Home.
981 As Sleigh Bells seem in summer Or Bees, at Christmas show— So fairy—so fictitious The individuals do
767 To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone— When One has failed to stop them— Is Human—but Divine
CXII I FELT a funeral in my brain, And mourners, to and fro, Kept treading, treading, till it s… That sense was breaking through.
41 I robbed the Woods— The trusting Woods. The unsuspecting Trees Brought out their Burs and mosses
256 If I’m lost—now That I was found— Shall still my transport be— That once—on me—those Jasper Gate…
A darting fear—a pomp—a tear— A waking on a morn To find that what one waked for, Inhales the different dawn.
14 One Sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There’s only one recorded, But both belong to me.
260 Read—Sweet—how others—strove— Till we—are stouter— What they—renounced— Till we—are less afraid—
‘Faithful to the end’ Amended From the Heavenly Clause - Constancy with a Proviso Constancy abhors - ‘Crowns of Life’ are servile Priz…