#AmericanWriters
I started Early– Took my Dog – And visited the Sea - The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me - And Frigates - in the Upper Floo…
801 I play at Riches—to appease The Clamoring for Gold— It kept me from a Thief, I think, For often, overbold
356 The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days— Until the Coronation came— And then—'twas Otherwise—
468 The Manner of its Death When Certain it must die— ’Tis deemed a privilege to choose— ’Twas Major Andre’s Way—
Judgment is justest When the Judged, His action laid away, Divested is of every Disk But his sincerity.
651 So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate— Would a Smile’s minute bestowing
979 This Merit hath the worst— It cannot be again— When Fate hath taunted last And thrown Her furthest Stone—
197 Morning—is the place for Dew— Corn—is made at Noon— After dinner light—for flowers— Dukes—for Setting Sun!
950 The Sunset stopped on Cottages Where Sunset hence must be For treason not of His, but Life’… Gone Westerly, Today—
924 Love—is that later Thing than Dea… More previous—than Life— Confirms it at its entrance—And Usurps it—of itself—
383 Exhiliration—is within— There can no Outer Wine So royally intoxicate As that diviner Brand
402 I pay—in Satin Cash— You did not state—your price— A Petal, for a Paragraph It near as I can guess—
Witchcraft has not a Pedigree ’Tis early as our Breath And mourners meet it going out The moment of our death—
A light exists in spring Not present on the year At any other period. When March is scarcely here A color stands abroad
587 Empty my Heart, of Thee— Its single Artery— Begin, and leave Thee out— Simply Extinction’s Date—