#AmericanWriters
705 Suspense—is Hostiler than Death— Death—tho’soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increas… Suspense—does not conclude –
543 I fear a Man of frugal Speech— I fear a Silent Man— Haranguer—I can overtake— Or Babbler—entertain—
957 As One does Sickness over In convalescent Mind, His scrutiny of Chances By blessed Health obscured—
To mend each tattered Faith There is a needle fair Though no appearance indicate ’Tis threaded in the Air And though it do not wear
XXX WE play at paste, Till qualified for pearl, Then drop the paste, And deem ourself a fool.
58 Delayed till she had ceased to kno… Delayed till in its vest of snow Her loving bosom lay— An hour behind the fleeting breath…
651 So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate— Would a Smile’s minute bestowing
69 Low at my problem bending, Another problem comes— Larger than mine—Serener— Involving statelier sums.
1034 His Bill an Auger is, His Head, a Cap and Frill. He laboreth at every Tree A Worm, His utmost Goal.
XLV DELIGHT becomes pictorial When viewed through pain,— More fair, because impossible That any gain.
‘Faithful to the end’ Amended From the Heavenly Clause - Constancy with a Proviso Constancy abhors - ‘Crowns of Life’ are servile Priz…
13 Sleep is supposed to be By souls of sanity The shutting of the eye. Sleep is the station grand
This is the land the sunset washes… These are the banks of the Yellow… Where it rose, or whither it rushe… These are the western mystery! Night after night her purple traff…
Judgment is justest When the Judged, His action laid away, Divested is of every Disk But his sincerity.
830 To this World she returned. But with a tinge of that— A Compound manner, As a Sod