#AmericanWriters
799 Despair’s advantage is achieved By suffering—Despair— To be assisted of Reverse One must Reverse have bore—
164 Mama never forgets her birds, Though in another tree— She looks down just as often And just as tenderly
444 It feels a shame to be Alive— When Men so brave—are dead— One envies the Distinguished Dust… Permitted—such a Head—
378 I saw no Way—The Heavens were st… I felt the Columns close— The Earth reversed her Hemisphere… I touched the Universe—
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry....
Tell as a Marksman - were forgot… Tell - this Day endures Ruddy as that coeval Apple The Tradition bears - Fresh as Mankind that humble stor…
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
Who were “the Father and the Son” We pondered when a child, And what had they to do with us And when portentous told With inference appalling
702 A first Mute Coming— In the Stranger’s House— A first fair Going— When the Bells rejoice—
116 I had some things that I called m… And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities.
545 ’Tis One by One—the Father count… And then a Tract between Set Cypherless—to teach the Eye The Value of its Ten—
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—
665 Dropped into the Ether Acre— Wearing the Sod Gown— Bonnet of Everlasting Laces— Brooch—frozen on—
If ever the lid gets off my head And lets the brain away The fellow will go where he belong… Without a hint from me, And the world– if the world be lo…
146 On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair—