#AmericanWriters
LXVII Presentment is that long shadow on… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
181 I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? You’ll know it by the Row of Star… Around its forehead bound.
His voice decrepit was with Joy - Her words did totter so How old the News of Love must be To make Lips elderly That purled a moment since with G…
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—
116 I had some things that I called m… And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities.
117 In rags mysterious as these The shining Courtiers go— Veiling the purple, and the plumes… Veiling the ermine so.
193 I shall know why — when Time is o… And I have ceased to wonder why — Christ will explain each separate… In the fair schoolroom of the sky…
284 The Drop, that wrestles in the Se… Forgets her own locality— As I—toward Thee— She knows herself an incense small…
223 I Came to buy a smile—today— But just a single smile— The smallest one upon your face Will suit me just as well—
384 No Rack can torture me— My Soul—at Liberty— Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder One—
143 For every Bird a Nest— Wherefore in timid quest Some little Wren goes seeking rou… Wherefore when boughs are free—
338 I know that He exists. Somewhere—in Silence— He has hid his rare life From our gross eyes.
127 “Houses”—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
393 Did Our Best Moment last— ‘Twould supersede the Heaven— A few—and they by Risk—procure— So this Sort—are not given—
XXXVI I NEVER hear the word “escape” Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude.