#AmericanWriters
109 By a flower—By a letter— By a nimble love— If I weld the Rivet faster— Final fast—above—
XVII SHE rose to his requirement, drop… The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
66 So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise— Hidden away, cunningly, From saga…
648 Promise This—When You be Dying— Some shall summon Me— Mine belong Your latest Sighing— Mine—to Belt Your Eye—
849 The good Will of a Flower The Man who would possess Must first present Certificate
68 Ambition cannot find him. Affection doesn’t know How many leagues of nowhere Lie between them now.
932 My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word— The Stars that stated come to Tow… Esteemed Me never rude
395 Reverse cannot befall That fine Prosperity Whose Sources are interior— As soon—Adversity
807 Expectation—is Contentment— Gain—Satiety— But Satiety—Conviction Of Necessity
Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue… The letting go A Presence—for an Expectation— Not now— The putting out of Eyes—
281 ’Tis so appalling—it exhilarates— So over Horror, it half Captivate… The Soul stares after it, secure— A Sepulchre, fears frost, no more…
589 The Night was wide, and furnished… With but a single Star— That often as a Cloud it met— Blew out itself—for fear—
I DIED for beauty, but was scarc… Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was la… In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed…
If Nature smiles - the Mother mu… I’m sure, at many a whim Of Her eccentric Family - Is She so much to blame?
459 A Tooth upon Our Peace The Peace cannot deface— Then Wherefore be the Tooth? To vitalize the Grace—