#AmericanWriters
’Twas such a little—little boat That toddled down the bay! ’Twas such a gallant—gallant sea That beckoned it away! ’Twas such a greedy, greedy wave
LX A SHADY friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.
‘T was just this time last year I… I know I heard the corn, When I was carried by the farms,— It had the tassels on. I thought how yellow it would look
VII WITHIN my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village…
669 No Romance sold unto Could so enthrall a Man As the perusal of His Individual One—
XXIV A NARROW fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him,—did you not? His notice sudden is.
373 I’m saying every day “If I should be a Queen, tomorrow… I’d do this way— And so I deck, a little,
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ‘T were easier for you To put the water back
332 There are two Ripenings—one—of si… Whose forces Spheric wind Until the Velvet product Drop spicy to the ground—
113 Our share of night to bear— Our share of morning— Our blank in bliss to fill Our blank in scorning—
469 The Red—Blaze—is the Morning— The Violet—is Noon— The Yellow—Day—is falling— And after that—is none—
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was la… In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed…
803 Who Court obtain within Himself Sees every Man a King— And Poverty of Monarchy Is an interior thing—
One need not be a chamber to be ha… One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Far safer, of a midnight meeting