#AmericanWriters
I started Early– Took my Dog – And visited the Sea - The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me - And Frigates - in the Upper Floo…
14 One Sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There’s only one recorded, But both belong to me.
563 I could not prove the Years had f… Yet confident they run Am I, from symptoms that are past And Series that are done—
941 The Lady feeds Her little Bird At rarer intervals— The little Bird would not dissent But meekly recognize
Some Days retired from the rest In soft distinction lie The Day that a Companion came Or was obliged to die
355 ’Tis Opposites—entice— Deformed Men—ponder Grace— Bright fires—the Blanketless— The Lost—Day’s face—
353 A happy lip—breaks sudden— It doesn’t state you how It contemplated—smiling— Just consummated—now—
846 Twice had Summer her fair Verdure Proffered to the Plain— Twice a Winter’s silver Fracture On the Rivers been—
327 Before I got my eye put out I liked as well to see— As other Creatures, that have Eye… And know no other way—
Our lives are Swiss— So still—so Cool— Till some odd afternoon The Alps neglect their Curtains And we look farther on!
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…
173 A fuzzy fellow, without feet, Yet doth exceeding run! Of velvet, is his Countenance, And his Complexion, dun!
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,
294 The Doomed—regard the Sunrise With different Delight— Because—when next it burns abroad They doubt to witness it—
Silence is all we dread. There’s Ransom in a Voice - But Silence is Infinity. Himself have not a face.