#AmericanWriters
XXV Wild nights—Wild nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury!
XXIII A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw.
713 Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous—An Incense Beyond Necessity—
491 While it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood
Death is like the insect Menacing the tree, Competent to kill it, But decoyed may be. Bait it with the balsam,
55 By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted— Which blossom in the dark.
A chilly Peace infests the Grass The Sun respectful lies - Not any Trance of industry These shadows scrutinize - Whose Allies go no more astray
326 I cannot dance upon my Toes’— No Man instructed me’— But oftentimes, among my mind, A Glee possesseth me,
48 Once more, my now bewildered Dove Bestirs her puzzled wings Once more her mistress, on the dee… Her troubled question flings—
359 I gained it so— By Climbing slow— By Catching at the Twigs that gro… Between the Bliss—and me—
176 I’m the little “Heart’s Ease”! I don’t care for pouting skies! If the Butterfly delay Can I, therefore, stay away?
129 Cocoon above! Cocoon below! Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so What all the world suspect? An hour, and gay on every tree
633 When Bells stop ringing—Church—be… The Positive—of Bells— When Cogs—stop—that's Circumferen… The Ultimate—of Wheels.
Shall I take thee, the Poet said To the propounded word? Be stationed with the Candidates Till I have finer tried— The Poet searched Philology
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;