#AmericanWriters
775 If Blame be my side’—forfeit Me’— But doom me not to forfeit Thee’— To forfeit Thee? The very name Is sentence from Belief’—and Hous…
867 Escaping backward to perceive The Sea upon our place— Escaping forward, to confront His glittering Embrace—
A Coffin—is a small Domain, Yet able to contain A Citizen of Paradise In it diminished Plane. A Grave—is a restricted Breadth—
She could not live upon the Past The Present did not know her And so she sought this sweet at la… And nature gently owned her The mother that has not a knell
Whose Pink career may have a clos… Portentous as our own, who knows? To imitate these Neighbors fleet In awe and innocence, were meet.
425 Good Morning’—Midnight’— I’m coming Home’— Day’—got tired of Me’— How could I’—of Him?
XLVI A THOUGHT went up my mind to—d… That I have had before, But did not finish,—some way back, I could not fix the year,
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
642 Me from Myself — to banish — Had I Art — Impregnable my Fortress Unto All Heart —
When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee - When a Lover is an Owner Different is he - What he begged is then the Beggar…
383 Exhiliration—is within— There can no Outer Wine So royally intoxicate As that diviner Brand
A feather from the Whippoorwill That everlasting—sings! Whose galleries—are Sunrise— Whose Opera—the Springs— Whose Emerald Nest the Ages spin
XV I know some lonely houses off the… A robber ’d like the look of,— Wooden barred, And windows hanging low,
820 All Circumstances are the Frame In which His Face is set— All Latitudes exist for His Sufficient Continent—
406 Some’—Work for Immortality’— The Chiefer part, for Time’— He’—Compensates’—immediately’— The former’—Checks’—on Fame’—