#AmericanWriters
882 A Shade upon the mind there passe… As when on Noon A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses Remembering
74 A Lady red—amid the Hill Her annual secret keeps! A Lady white, within the Field In placid Lily sleeps!
423 The Months have ends—the Years—a… No Power can untie To stretch a little further A Skein of Misery—
914 I cannot be ashamed Because I cannot see The love you offer— Magnitude
89 Some things that fly there be— Birds—Hours—the Bumblebee— Of these no Elegy. Some things that stay there be—
938 Fairer through Fading—as the Day Into the Darkness dips away— Half Her Complexion of the Sun— Hindering—Haunting—Perishing—
78 A poor—torn heart—a tattered heart… That sat it down to rest— Nor noticed that the Ebbing Day Flowed silver to the West—
384 No Rack can torture me— My Soul—at Liberty— Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder One—
XXVI THE brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ’T were easier for you
The heart asks pleasure first And then, excuse from pain– And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep;
621 I asked no other thing— No other—was denied— I offered Being—for it— The Mighty Merchant sneered—
311 It sifts from Leaden Sieves— It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road—
289 I know some lonely Houses off the… A Robber’d like the look of— Wooden barred, And Windows hanging low,
567 He gave away his Life— To Us—Gigantic Sum— A trifle—in his own esteem— But magnified—by Fame—
433 Knows how to forget! But could It teach it? Easiest of Arts, they say When one learn how