#AmericanWriters
46 I keep my pledge. I was not called— Death did not notice me. I bring my Rose.
347 When Night is almost done— And Sunrise grows so near That we can touch the Spaces— It’s time to smooth the Hair—
Nature rarer uses yellow Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets,… Prodigal of blue, Spending scarlet like a woman,
XCIX THERE is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.
312 Her—last Poems— Poets ended— Silver—perished—with her Tongue— Not on Record—bubbled Other,
76 Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the houses—past the headlands… Into deep Eternity—
No brigadier throughout the year So civic as the jay. A neighbor and a warrior too, With shrill felicity Pursuing winds that censure us
426 It don't sound so terrible—quite—a… I run it over—"Dead", Brain, "De… Put it in Latin—left of my school… Seems it don't shriek so—under rul…
970 Color — Caste — Denomination — These — are Time's Affair — Death's diviner Classifying Does not know they are —
454 It was given to me by the Gods— When I was a little Girl— They given us Presents most—you k… When we are new—and small.
606 The Trees like Tassels—hit—and sw… There seemed to rise a Tune From Miniature Creatures Accompanying the Sun—
I dreaded that first robin so, But he is mastered now, And I’m accustomed to him grown,— He hurts a little, though. I thought if I could only live
Your Riches—taught me—Poverty. Myself—a Millionaire In little Wealths, as Girls could… Till broad as Buenos Ayre— You drifted your Dominions—
442 God made a little Gentian— It tried—to be a Rose— And failed—and all the Summer lau… But just before the Snows
146 On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair—