#AmericanWriters
When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee - When a Lover is an Owner Different is he - What he begged is then the Beggar…
886 These tested Our Horizon— Then disappeared As Birds before achieving A Latitude.
185 “Faith” is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
634 You’ll know Her—by Her Foot— The smallest Gamboge Hand With Fingers—where the Toes shoul… Would more affront the Sand—
Pain—has an Element of Blank— It cannot recollect When it begun—or if there were A time when it was not— It has no Future—but itself—
Her final summer was it, And yet we guessed it not; If tenderer industriousness Pervaded her, we thought A further force of life
911 Too little way the House must lie From every Human Heart That holds in undisputed Lease A white inhabitant—
XXII I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity.
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
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
171 Wait till the Majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered Footman Might dare to touch it now!
13 Sleep is supposed to be By souls of sanity The shutting of the eye. Sleep is the station grand
549 That I did always love I bring thee Proof That till I loved I never lived—Enough—
XXVIII A CHARM invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled.
56 If I should cease to bring a Rose Upon a festal day, ‘Twill be because beyond the Rose I have been called away—
