#AmericanWriters
“Sic transit gloria mundi,” “How doth the busy bee,” “Dum vivimus vivamus,” I stay mine enemy! Oh “veni, vidi, vici!”
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…
757 The Mountains—grow unnoticed— Their Purple figures rise Without attempt—Exhaustion— Assistance—or Applause—
Lives he in any other world My faith cannot reply Before it was imperative ’Twas all distinct to me -
Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
“Houses”'—so the Wise Men tell me… Houses—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
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
480 “Why do I love” You, Sir? Because— The Wind does not require the Gra… To answer—Wherefore when He pass
528 Mine—by the Right of the White E… Mine—by the Royal Seal! Mine—by the sign in the Scarlet p… Bars—cannot conceal!
883 The Poets light but Lamps— Themselves—go out— The Wicks they stimulate— If vital Light
54 If I should die, And you should live— And time should gurgle on— And morn should beam—
218 Is it true, dear Sue? Are there two? I shouldn’t like to come For fear of joggling Him!
71 A throe upon the features— A hurry in the breath— An ecstasy of parting Denominated “Death”—
501 This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond— Invisible, as Music— But positive, as Sound—
Because I could not stop for Deat… He kindly stopped for me– The Carriage held but just Oursel… And Immortality. We slowly drove– He knew no haste