#AmericanWriters
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;
206 The Flower must not blame the Bee… That seeketh his felicity Too often at her door— But teach the Footman from Vevay—
226 Should you but fail at—Sea— In sight of me— Or doomed lie— Next Sun—to die—
532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—
458 Like eyes that looked on Wastes— Incredulous of Ought But Blank—and steady Wilderness— Diversified by Night—
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
76 Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the houses—past the headlands… Into deep Eternity—
464 The power to be true to You, Until upon my face The Judgment push his Picture— Presumptuous of Your Place—
I saw the wind within her I knew it blew for me '— But she must buy my shelter I asked Humility
The sky is low, the clouds are mea… A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day
762 The Whole of it came not at once— ’Twas Murder by degrees— A Thrust—and then for Life a chan… The Bliss to cauterize—
292 If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve—
I meant to find her when I came; Death had the same design; But the success was his, it seems, And the discomfit mine. I meant to tell her how I longed
122 A something in a summer’s Day As slow her flambeaux burn away Which solemnizes me. A something in a summer’s noon—
606 The Trees like Tassels—hit—and sw… There seemed to rise a Tune From Miniature Creatures Accompanying the Sun—