#AmericanWriters #CommonMeasure #Epigram
XIV I’M ceded, I ’ve stopped being th… The name they dropped upon my face With water, in the country church, Is finished using now,
202 My Eye is fuller than my vase— Her Cargo—is of Dew— And still—my Heart—my Eye outweig… East India—for you!
990 Not all die early, dying young— Maturity of Fate Is consummated equally In Ages, or a Night—
327 Before I got my eye put out I liked as well to see— As other Creatures, that have Eye… And know no other way—
There cam a Wind like a Bugle - It quivered through the Grass And a Green Chill upon the Heat So ominous did pass We barred the Windows and the Doo…
Me prove it now —Whoever doubt Me stop to prove it —now — Make haste —the Scruple! Death be… For Opportunity — The River reaches to my feet —
771 None can experience sting Who Bounty—have not known— The fact of Famine—could not be Except for Fact of Corn—
816 A Death blow is a Life blow to S… Who till they died, did not alive… Who had they lived, had died but w… They died, Vitality begun.
868 They ask but our Delight— The Darlings of the Soil And grant us all their Countenanc… For a penurious smile.
30 Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town?
100 A science—so the Savants say, “Comparative Anatomy”— By which a single bone— Is made a secret to unfold
33 If recollecting were forgetting, Then I remember not. And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot.
To my quick ear the leaves conferr… The bushes they were bells; I could not find a privacy From Nature’s sentinels. In cave if I presumed to hide,
22 All these my banners be. I sow my pageantry In May— It rises train by train—
224 I've nothing else—to bring, You k… So I keep bringing These— Just as the Night keeps fetching… To our familiar eyes—