#AmericanWriters
960 As plan for Noon and plan for Nig… So differ Life and Death In positive Prospective— The Foot upon the Earth
115 What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar Traveller comes? Who is the Landlord?
119 Talk with prudence to a Beggar Of “Potose,” and the mines! Reverently, to the Hungry Of your viands, and your wines!
181 I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? You’ll know it by the Row of Star… Around its forehead bound.
They dropped like flakes, they dro… Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the lune A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless gras…
98 One dignity delays for all— One mitred Afternoon— None can avoid this purple— None evade this Crown!
892 Who occupies this House? A Stranger I must judge Since No one know His Circumstan… ’Tis well the name and age
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate Whose table once a Guest but not The second time is set.
Not Sickness stains the Brave, Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, But an adjourning Heart -
596 When I was small, a Woman died— Today—her Only Boy Went up from the Potomac— His face all Victory
The heart asks pleasure first And then, excuse from pain– And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep;
732 She rose to His Requirement—dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and of Wife—
90 Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered thro’ the village—
152 The Sun kept stooping—stooping—lo… The Hills to meet him rose! On his side, what Transaction! On their side, what Repose!
167 To learn the Transport by the Pai… As Blind Men learn the sun! To die of thirst—suspecting That Brooks in Meadows run!