#AmericanWriters
XX ARCTURUS is his other name,— I ’d rather call him star! It ’s so unkind of science To go and interfere!
79 Going to Heaven! I don’t know when— Pray do not ask me how! Indeed I’m too astonished
Not with a club, the Heart is bro… Nor with a stone; A whip, so small you could not see… I’ve known To lash the magic creature
Oh Shadow on the Grass, Art thou a Step or not? Go make thee fair my Candidate My nominated Heart - Oh Shadow on the Grass
Rearrange a “Wife’s” Affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man! Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness…
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown In Chrysoprase Apartments hung This afternoon put on— How condescending to descend And be of Buttercups the friend
766 My Faith is larger than the Hills… So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wh… To show the Sun the way—
603 He found my Being—set it up— Adjusted it to place— Then carved his name—upon it— And bade it to the East
LV I envy seas whereon he rides, I envy spokes of wheels Of chariots that him convey, I envy speechless hills
959 A loss of something ever felt I— The first that I could recollect Bereft I was—of what I knew not Too young that any should suspect
135 Water, is taught by thirst. Land—by the Oceans passed. Transport—by throe— Peace—by its battles told—
’T IS so much joy! ’T is so much… If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so
Some Days retired from the rest In soft distinction lie The Day that a Companion came Or was obliged to die
569 I reckon—when I count at all— First—Poets—Then the Sun— Then Summer—Then the Heaven of G… And then—the List is done—