#AmericanWriters
253 You see I cannot see—your lifetim… I must guess— How many times it ache for me—toda… How many times for my far sake
146 On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair—
Epigram THIS is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,— The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty.
765 You constituted Time— I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself— ’Twas therefore Deity
Publication—is the Auction Of the Mind of Man— Poverty—be justifying For so foul a thing Possibly—but We—would rather
540 I took my Power in my Hand— And went against the World— ’Twas not so much as David—had— But I—was twice as bold—
The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low,— He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky. The leaves unhooked themselves fro…
377 To lose one’s faith—surpass The loss of an Estate— Because Estates can be Replenished—faith cannot—
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—
666 Ah, Teneriffe! Retreating Mountain! Purples of Ages—pause for you— Sunset—reviews her Sapphire Regim…
“Houses”'—so the Wise Men tell me… Houses—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
599 There is a pain’—so utter’— It swallows substance up’— Then covers the Abyss with Trance… So Memory can step
461 A Wife—at daybreak I shall be— Sunrise—Hast thou a Flag for me? At Midnight, I am but a Maid, How short it takes to make a Brid…
546 To fill a Gap Insert the Thing that caused it— Block it up With Other—and 'twill yawn the mo…
II OUR share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning.