#Americans
My heart is an old house, and in t… In the very centre, dark and forgo… Is a locked room where an enchante… Lies sleeping. But sometimes, in that dark house,
The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she knows. How inadequate they are to tell ho…
Grasshopper grasshopper all day long we hear your scraping summer song
Senlin sat before us and we heard… He smoked his pipe before us and w… Was he small, with reddish hair, Did he light his pipe with a medit… And a twinkling flame reflected in…
She rose in moonlight, and stood,… With her bare arms uplifted, And lifted her voice in the silenc… And her face was small, and her vo… ‘O moon!’ she cried, ‘I think how…
Beloved, let us once more praise t… Let us discover some new alphabet, For this, the often praised; and b… The rain, the chickweed, and the b… The green-white privet flower, the…
All lovely things will have an end… All lovely things will fade and di… And youth, that’s now so bravely s… Will beg a penny by and by. Fine ladies soon are all forgotten…
How is it that I am now so softly… My leaves shaken down with music?— Darling, I love you. It is not your mouth, for I have… Though your mouth is more alive th…
The door is shut. She leaves the… And down the grey-walled stairs co… Towards the dazzling street. Her withered hand clings tightly t… The long stairs rise and fall bene…
Moonlight silvers the tops of tree… Moonlight whitens the lilac shadow… And through the evening fall, Clearly, as if through enchanted s… Footsteps passing, an infinite dis…
As I walked through the lamplit g… On the thin white crust of snow, So intensely was I thinking of my… So clearly were my eyes fixed On the face of this grief which ha…
One, from his high bright window i… Leans out, as evening falls, And sees the advancing curtain of… Splashing its silver on roofs and… Sees how, swift as a shadow, it cr…
Many things perplex me and leave m… Many things are locked away in the… Never to be opened by me. The starr’d leaves are silently tu… And the mooned leaves;
This girl gave her heart to me, And this, and this. This one looked at me as if she lo… And silently walked away. This one I saw once and loved, an…
No, I shall not say why it is tha… Why do you ask me, save for vanity… Surely you would not have me, like… Say ‘yes,—your hair curls darkly b… Your mouth has a humorous, tremulo…