#AmericanWriters
’Twas such a little—little boat That toddled down the bay! ’Twas such a gallant—gallant sea That beckoned it away! ’Twas such a greedy, greedy wave
Exhilaration is the Breeze That lifts us from the Ground And leaves us in another place Whose statement is not found - Returns us not, but after time
Two butterflies went out at noon And waltzed above a stream, Then stepped straight through the… And rested on a beam; And then together bore away
Judgment is justest When the Judged, His action laid away, Divested is of every Disk But his sincerity.
’Twas Crisis—All the length had p… That dull—benumbing time There is in Fever or Event— And now the Chance had come— The instant holding in its claw
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
God permit industrious angels Afternoons to play. I met one,—forgot my school-mates, All, for him, straightaway. God calls home the angels promptly
239 “Heaven”—is what I cannot reach! The Apple on the Tree— Provided it do hopeless—hang— That—"He aven" is—to Me!
420 You’ll know it—as you know ’tis N… By Glory— As you do the Sun— By Glory—
XCIX THERE is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.
424 Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days— Myself had just to earn—
72 Glowing is her Bonnet, Glowing is her Cheek, Glowing is her Kirtle, Yet she cannot speak.
It dropped so low—in my Regard— I heard it hit the Ground— And go to pieces on the Stones At bottom of my Mind— Yet blamed the Fate that flung it…
XXXIV NATURE is what we see, The Hill, the Afternoon— Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee… Nay—Nature is Heaven.
353 A happy lip—breaks sudden— It doesn’t state you how It contemplated—smiling— Just consummated—now—