#AmericanWriters
765 You constituted Time— I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself— ’Twas therefore Deity
CXXXVI I STEPPED from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea.
896 Of Silken Speech and Specious Sh… A Traitor is the Bee His service to the newest Grace Present continually
These Fevered Days—to take them t… Where Waters cool around the moss… And shade is all that devastates t… Seems it sometimes this would be a…
Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise. Three times, 't is said, a sinking… Comes up to face the skies, And then declines forever
XIX PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.
XLVII HEART, we will forget him! You and I, to—night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
980 Purple—is fashionable twice— This season of the year, And when a soul perceives itself To be an Emperor.
193 I shall know why — when Time is o… And I have ceased to wonder why — Christ will explain each separate… In the fair schoolroom of the sky…
16 I would distil a cup, And bear to all my friends, Drinking to her no more astir, By beck, or burn, or moor!
I saw the wind within her I knew it blew for me '— But she must buy my shelter I asked Humility
Proud of my broken heart, since th… Proud of the pain, I did not feel… Proud of my night, since thou, wit… Not to partake thy passion, –my hu… Thou can’st not boast, like Jesus…
785 They have a little Odor—that to m… Is metre—nay—’tis melody— And spiciest at fading—indicate— A Habit—of a Laureate—
323 As if I asked a common Alms, And in my wondering hand A Stranger pressed a Kingdom, And I, bewildered, stand—
200 I stole them from a Bee— Because—Thee— Sweet plea— He pardoned me!