#AmericanWriters
Witchcraft has not a Pedigree ’Tis early as our Breath And mourners meet it going out The moment of our death—
A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard— Till morning touching mountain—
423 The Months have ends—the Years—a… No Power can untie To stretch a little further A Skein of Misery—
148 All overgrown by cunning moss, All interspersed with weed, The little cage of “Currer Bell” In quiet “Haworth” laid.
839 Always Mine! No more Vacation! Term of Light this Day begun! Failless as the fair rotation
751 My Worthiness is all my Doubt— His Merit—all my fear— Contrasting which, my quality Do lowlier—appear—
369 She lay as if at play Her life had leaped away— Intending to return— But not so soon—
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
645 Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen— A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs—between—
445 ’Twas just this time, last year,… I know I heard the Corn, When I was carried by the Farms— It had the Tassels on—
129 Cocoon above! Cocoon below! Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so What all the world suspect? An hour, and gay on every tree
682 ‘Twould ease—a Butterfly— Elate—a Bee— Thou’rt neither— Neither—thy capacity—
A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no Witness in
If all the griefs I am to have Would only come today, I am so happy I believe They’d laugh and run away. If all the joys I am to have
424 Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days— Myself had just to earn—