#AmericanWriters
XXVII BECAUSE I could not stop for D… He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Oursel… And Immortality.
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—
927 Absent Place—an April Day— Daffodils a-blow Homesick curiosity To the Souls that snow—
469 The Red—Blaze—is the Morning— The Violet—is Noon— The Yellow—Day—is falling— And after that—is none—
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature will not tell the tale
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
175 I have never seen “Volcanoes”— But, when Travellers tell How those old—phlegmatic mountains Usually so still—
330 The Juggler’s Hat her Country is… The Mountain Gorse—the Bee’s!
It’s like the light,— A fashionless delight It’s like the bee,— A dateless melody. It’s like the woods,
The sky is low, the clouds are mea… A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day
913 And this of all my Hopes This, is the silent end Bountiful colored, my Morning ros… Early and sere, its end
This is the land the sunset washes… These are the banks of the Yellow… Where it rose, or whither it rushe… These are the western mystery! Night after night her purple traff…
592 What care the Dead, for Chanticle… What care the Dead for Day? ’Tis late your Sunrise vex their… And Purple Ribaldry—of Morning
855 To own the Art within the Soul The Soul to entertain With Silence as a Company And Festival maintain
573 The Test of Love—is Death— Our Lord—"so loved"—it saith— What Largest Lover—hath Another—doth—