#AmericanWriters
82 Whose cheek is this? What rosy face Has lost a blush today? I found her—"pleiad"—in the woods
864 The Robin for the Crumb Returns no syllable But long records the Lady’s name In Silver Chronicle.
I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry…
There is another Loneliness That many die without - Not want of friend occasions it Or circumstances of Lot But nature, sometimes, sometimes t…
312 Her—last Poems— Poets ended— Silver—perished—with her Tongue— Not on Record—bubbled Other,
Silence is all we dread. There’s Ransom in a Voice - But Silence is Infinity. Himself have not a face.
Whether they have forgotten Or are forgetting now Or never remembered - Safer not to know - Miseries of conjecture
342 It will be Summer—eventually. Ladies—with parasols— Sauntering Gentlemen—with Canes— And little Girls—with Dolls—
107 ’Twas such a little—little boat That toddled down the bay! ’Twas such a gallant—gallant sea That beckoned it away!
40 When I count the seeds That are sown beneath, To bloom so, bye and bye— When I con the people
528 Mine—by the Right of the White E… Mine—by the Royal Seal! Mine—by the sign in the Scarlet p… Bars—cannot conceal!
‘Faithful to the end’ Amended From the Heavenly Clause - Constancy with a Proviso Constancy abhors - ‘Crowns of Life’ are servile Priz…
LIX I TOOK my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold.
It dropped so low—in my Regard— I heard it hit the Ground— And go to pieces on the Stones At bottom of my Mind— Yet blamed the Fate that flung it…
775 If Blame be my side’—forfeit Me’— But doom me not to forfeit Thee’— To forfeit Thee? The very name Is sentence from Belief’—and Hous…