#AmericanWriters
If I can stop one heart from brea… I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching… Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin
771 None can experience sting Who Bounty—have not known— The fact of Famine—could not be Except for Fact of Corn—
989 Gratitude—is not the mention Of a Tenderness, But its still appreciation Out of Plumb of Speech.
766 My Faith is larger than the Hills… So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wh… To show the Sun the way—
390 It’s coming—the postponeless Crea… It gains the Block—and now—it gai… Chooses its latch, from all the ot… Enters—with a “You know Me—Sir”?
Whether they have forgotten Or are forgetting now Or never remembered - Safer not to know - Miseries of conjecture
There’s been a death in the opposi… As lately as to-day. I know it by the numb look Such houses have alway. The neighbors rustle in and out,
Tell all the truth but tell it sla… Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The truth’s superb surprise; As lightning to the children eased
Let me not mar that perfect Dream By an Auroral stain But so adjust my daily Night That it will come again. Not when we know, the Power accos…
96 Sexton! My Master’s sleeping here… Pray lead me to his bed! I came to build the Bird’s nest, And sow the Early seed—
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
941 The Lady feeds Her little Bird At rarer intervals— The little Bird would not dissent But meekly recognize
378 I saw no Way—The Heavens were st… I felt the Columns close— The Earth reversed her Hemisphere… I touched the Universe—
82 Whose cheek is this? What rosy face Has lost a blush today? I found her—"pleiad"—in the woods
Some keep the Sabbath going to Ch… I keep it, staying at Home— With a Bobolink for a Chorister— And an Orchard, for a Dome— Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice…