#AmericanWriters
977 Besides this May We know There is Another— How fair
’Twas Crisis—All the length had p… That dull—benumbing time There is in Fever or Event— And now the Chance had come— The instant holding in its claw
684 Best Gains’—must have the Losses’… To constitute them’—Gains’—
130 These are the days when Birds com… A very few—a Bird or two— To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resu…
682 'Twould ease — a Butterfly — Elate — a Bee — Thou'rt neither — Neither — thy capacity —
883 The Poets light but Lamps— Themselves—go out— The Wicks they stimulate— If vital Light
LXXXV A LIGHT exists in spring Not present on the year At any other period. When March is scarcely here
637 The Child’s faith is new— Whole—like His Principle— Wide—like the Sunrise On fresh Eyes—
331 While Asters— On the Hill— Their Everlasting fashions—set— And Covenant Gentians—Frill!
653 Of Being is a Bird The likest to the Down An Easy Breeze do put afloat The General Heavens—upon—
718 I meant to find Her when I came— Death—had the same design— But the Success—was His—it seems— And the Surrender—Mine—
269 Bound—a trouble— And lives can bear it! Limit—how deep a bleeding go! So—many—drops—of vital scarlet—
XXVI THE brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ’T were easier for you
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…
The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful—