#AmericanWriters
93 Went up a year this evening! I recollect it well! Amid no bells nor bravoes The bystanders will tell!
934 That is solemn we have ended Be it but a Play Or a Glee among the Garret Or a Holiday
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
XXVIII A CHARM invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled.
909 I make His Crescent fill or lack— His Nature is at Full Or Quarter—as I signify— His Tides—do I control—
Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee,
They say that ‘time assuages,’— Time never did assuage; An actual suffering strengthens, As sinews do, with age. Time is a test of trouble,
On my volcano grows the Grass A meditative spot - An acre for a Bird to choose Would be the General thought - How red the Fire rocks below -
563 I could not prove the Years had f… Yet confident they run Am I, from symptoms that are past And Series that are done—
168 If the foolish, call them “flowers… Need the wiser, tell? If the Savants “Classify” them It is just as well!
601 A still—Volcano—Life— That flickered in the night— When it was dark enough to do Without erasing sight—
742 Four Trees—upon a solitary Acre— Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action— Maintain—
204 A slash of Blue— A sweep of Gray— Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky—
481 The Himmaleh was known to stoop Unto the Daisy low— Transported with Compassion That such a Doll should grow
The Snow that never drifts - The transient, fragrant snow That comes a single time a Year Is softly driving now - So thorough in the Tree