#AmericanWriters
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…
127 “Houses”—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
793 Grief is a Mouse— And chooses Wainscot in the Breas… For His Shy House— And baffles quest—
619 Glee—The great storm is over— Four—have recovered the Land— Forty gone down together— Into the boiling Sand.
461 A Wife—at daybreak I shall be— Sunrise—Hast thou a Flag for me? At Midnight, I am but a Maid, How short it takes to make a Brid…
377 To lose one’s faith—surpass The loss of an Estate— Because Estates can be Replenished—faith cannot—
143 For every Bird a Nest— Wherefore in timid quest Some little Wren goes seeking rou… Wherefore when boughs are free—
So much of Heaven has gone from E… That there must be a Heaven If only to enclose the Saints To Affidavit given. The Missionary to the Mole
115 What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar Traveller comes? Who is the Landlord?
108 Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit—Life!
204 A slash of Blue— A sweep of Gray— Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky—
76 Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the houses—past the headlands… Into deep Eternity—
454 It was given to me by the Gods— When I was a little Girl— They given us Presents most—you k… When we are new—and small.
616 I rose—because He sank— I thought it would be opposite— But when his power dropped— My Soul grew straight.
281 ’Tis so appalling—it exhilarates— So over Horror, it half Captivate… The Soul stares after it, secure— A Sepulchre, fears frost, no more…