#AmericanWriters
I counted till they danced so Their slippers leaped the town, And then I took a pencil To note the rebels down. And then they grew so jolly
Said Death to Passion ‘Give of thine an Acre unto me.’ Said Passion, through contracting… ‘A Thousand Times Thee Nay.’ Bore Death from Passion
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.
277 What if I say I shall not wait! What if I burst the fleshly Gate— And pass escaped—to thee! What if I file this Mortal—off—
655 Without this—there is nought— All other Riches be As is the Twitter of a Bird— Heard opposite the Sea—
340 Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I’d rather suit my foot
662 Embarrassment of one another And God Is Revelation’s limit, Aloud
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,
10 My wheel is in the dark! I cannot see a spoke Yet know its dripping feet Go round and round.
187 How many times these low feet stag… Only the soldered mouth can tell— Try—can you stir the awful rivet— Try—can you lift the hasps of stee…
Me! Come! My dazzled face In such a shining place! Me! Hear! My foreign ear The sounds of welcome near! The saints shall meet
669 No Romance sold unto Could so enthrall a Man As the perusal of His Individual One—
I am afraid to own a Body - I am afraid to own a Soul - Profound– precarious Property – Possession, not optional - Double Estate - entailed at plea…
414 ’Twas like a Maelstrom, with a no… That nearer, every Day, Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel Until the Agony
This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,- The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty Her message is committed