#AmericanWriters
718 I meant to find Her when I came— Death—had the same design— But the Success—was His—it seems— And the Surrender—Mine—
740 You taught me Waiting with Myself… Appointment strictly kept’— You taught me fortitude of Fate’— This’—also’—I have learnt’—
588 I cried at Pity—not at Pain— I heard a Woman say “Poor Child”—and something in her… Convicted me—of me—
368 How sick—to wait—in any place—but… I knew last night—when someone tri… Thinking—perhaps—that I looked ti… Or breaking—almost—with unspoken p…
567 He gave away his Life— To Us—Gigantic Sum— A trifle—in his own esteem— But magnified—by Fame—
736 Have any like Myself Investigating March, New Houses on the Hill descried— And possibly a Church—
351 I felt my life with both my hands To see if it was there— I held my spirit to the Glass, To prove it possibler—
201 Two swimmers wrestled on the spar— Until the morning sun— When One—turned smiling to the la… Oh God! the Other One!
728 Let Us play Yesterday— I—the Girl at school— You—and Eternity—the Untold Tale—
112 Where bells no more affright the m… Where scrabble never comes— Where very nimble Gentlemen Are forced to keep their rooms—
408 Unit, like Death, for Whom? True, like the Tomb, Who tells no secret Told to Him—
888 When I have seen the Sun emerge From His amazing House— And leave a Day at every Door A Deed, in every place—
591 To interrupt His Yellow Plan The Sun does not allow Caprices of the Atmosphere— And even when the Snow
Tell as a Marksman - were forgot… Tell - this Day endures Ruddy as that coeval Apple The Tradition bears - Fresh as Mankind that humble stor…
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;