#AmericanWriters
323 As if I asked a common Alms, And in my wondering hand A Stranger pressed a Kingdom, And I, bewildered, stand—
450 Dreams—are well—but Waking’s bett… If One wake at morn— If One wake at Midnight—better— Dreaming—of the Dawn—
368 How sick—to wait—in any place—but… I knew last night—when someone tri… Thinking—perhaps—that I looked ti… Or breaking—almost—with unspoken p…
Not “Revelation”—'tis—that waits, But our unfurnished eyes—
173 A fuzzy fellow, without feet, Yet doth exceeding run! Of velvet, is his Countenance, And his Complexion, dun!
902 The first Day that I was a Life I recollect it—How still— That last Day that I was a Life I recollect it—as well—
822 This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself alone
383 Exhiliration—is within— There can no Outer Wine So royally intoxicate As that diviner Brand
The Savior must have been A docile Gentleman— To come so far so cold a Day For little Fellowmen— The Road to Bethlehem
’Twas Crisis—All the length had p… That dull—benumbing time There is in Fever or Event— And now the Chance had come— The instant holding in its claw
694 The Heaven vests for Each In that small Deity It craved the grace to worship Some bashful Summer’s Day—
One need not be a chamber to be ha… One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Far safer, of a midnight meeting
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ectasty. For each beloved hour
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…
The heart asks pleasure first And then, excuse from pain– And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep;