#AmericanWriters
In snow thou comest - Thou shalt go with the resuming gr… The sweet derision of the crow, And Glee’s advancing sound. In fear thou comest -
818 I could not drink it, Sweet, Till You had tasted first, Though cooler than the Water was The Thoughtfullness of Thirst.
772 The hallowing of Pain Like hallowing of Heaven, Obtains at a corporeal cost— The Summit is not given
Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise. Three times, 't is said, a sinking… Comes up to face the skies, And then declines forever
Part One: Life LIV EXPERIMENT to me Is every one I meet. If it contain a kernel?
A Word dropped careless on a Page May stimulate an eye When folded in perpetual seam The Wrinkled Maker lie Infection in the sentence breeds
185 “Faith” is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
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…
LXII BEFORE I got my eye put out, I liked as well to see As other creatures that have eyes, And know no other way.
456 So well that I can live without— I love thee—then How well is that… As well as Jesus? Prove it me
Good night! which put the candle o… A jealous zephyr, not a doubt. Ah! friend, you little knew How long at that celestial wick The angels labored diligent;
902 The first Day that I was a Life I recollect it—How still— That last Day that I was a Life I recollect it—as well—
They shut me up in Prose— As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet— Because they liked me “still”— Still! Could themself have peeped…
368 How sick—to wait—in any place—but… I knew last night—when someone tri… Thinking—perhaps—that I looked ti… Or breaking—almost—with unspoken p…
774 It is a lonesome Glee— Yet sanctifies the Mind— With fair association— Afar upon the Wind