#AmericanWriters
508 I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Thei… The name They dropped upon my fac… With water, in the country church Is finished using, now,
534 We see—Comparatively— The Thing so towering high We could not grasp its segment Unaided—Yesterday—
I counted till they danced so Their slippers leaped the town, And then I took a pencil To note the rebels down. And then they grew so jolly
852 Apology for Her Be rendered by the Bee— Herself, without a Parliament Apology for Me.
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 -
655 Without this—there is nought— All other Riches be As is the Twitter of a Bird— Heard opposite the Sea—
It is an honorable thought, And makes one lift one’s hat, As one encountered gentlefolk Upon a daily street, That we’ve immortal place,
After great pain, a formal feeling… The Nerves sit ceremonious, like… The stiff Heart questions was it… And Yesterday, or Centuries befor… The Feet, mechanical, go round—
It stole along so stealthy Suspicion it was done Was dim as to the wealthy Beginning not to own -
Who were “the Father and the Son” We pondered when a child, And what had they to do with us And when portentous told With inference appalling
XXXI I FOUND the phrase to every tho… I ever had, but one; And that defies me,—as a hand Did try to chalk the sun
822 This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself alone
370 Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved— The Site—of it—by Architect Could not again be proved—
651 So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate— Would a Smile’s minute bestowing
Rearrange a “Wife’s” Affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man! Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness…