#AmericanWriters
XL THE thought beneath so slight a f… Is more distinctly seen,— As laces just reveal the surge, Or mists the Apennine.
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
955 The Hollows round His eager Eyes Were Pages where to read Pathetic Histories—although Himself had not complained.
933 Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words
137 Flowers—Well—if anybody Can the ecstasy define— Half a transport—half a trouble— With which flowers humble men:
I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry…
452 The Malay—took the Pearl— Not—I—the Earl— I—feared the Sea—too much Unsanctified—to touch—
All men for Honor hardest work But are not known to earn - Paid after they have ceased to wor… In Infamy or Urn -
735 Upon Concluded Lives There’s nothing cooler falls— Than Life’s sweet Calculations— The mixing Bells and Palls—
His Heart was darker than the sta… For that there is a morn But in this black Receptacle Can be no Bode of Dawn
178 I cautious, scanned my little life… I winnowed what would fade From what would last till Heads l… Should be a-dreaming laid.
This was a Poet —It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings — And Attar so immense From the familiar species
Departed to the judgment, A mighty afternoon; Great clouds like ushers leaning, Creation looking on. The flesh surrendered, cancelled
532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—
172 ’Tis so much joy! ’Tis so much jo… If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I, Have ventured all upon a throw!