#AmericanWriters
64 Some Rainbow—coming from the Fair… Some Vision of the World Cashmer… I confidently see! Or else a Peacock’s purple Train
302 Like Some Old fashioned Miracle When Summertime is done— Seems Summer’s Recollection And the Affairs of June
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—
596 When I was small, a Woman died— Today—her Only Boy Went up from the Potomac— His face all Victory
I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol! Inebriate of air am I,
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…
753 My Soul—accused me—And I quailed… As Tongue of Diamond had reviled All else accused me—and I smiled— My Soul—that Morning—was My frie…
Awake ye muses nine, sing me a str… Unwind the solemn twine, and tie m… Oh the Earth was made for lovers,… For sighing, and gentle whispering… All things do go a courting, in ea…
XIX I STARTED early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me,
509 If anybody’s friend be dead It’s sharpest of the theme The thinking how they walked alive… At such and such a time—
A thought went up my mind to-day That I have had before, But did not finish,—some way back, I could not fix the year, Nor where it went, nor why it came
603 He found my Being—set it up— Adjusted it to place— Then carved his name—upon it— And bade it to the East
970 Color — Caste — Denomination — These — are Time's Affair — Death's diviner Classifying Does not know they are —
859 A Doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find.
It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bell… Put out their tongues, for noon. It was not frost, for on my flesh