#AmericanWriters
476 I meant to have but modest needs— Such as Content—and Heaven— Within my income—these could lie And Life and I—keep even—
859 A Doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find.
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…
756 One Blessing had I than the rest So larger to my Eyes That I stopped gauging—satisfied— For this enchanted size—
193 I shall know why — when Time is o… And I have ceased to wonder why — Christ will explain each separate… In the fair schoolroom of the sky…
404 How many Flowers fail in Wood— Or perish from the Hill— Without the privilege to know That they are Beautiful—
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
232 The Sun’—just touched the Morning… The Morning’—Happy thing’— Supposed that He had come to dwel… And Life would all be Spring!
192 Poor little Heart! Did they forget thee? Then dinna care! Then dinna care! Proud little Heart!
604 Unto my Books’—so good to turn’— Far ends of tired Days’— It half endears the Abstinence’— And Pain’—is missed’—in Praise’—
The Snow that never drifts - The transient, fragrant snow That comes a single time a Year Is softly driving now - So thorough in the Tree
71 A throe upon the features— A hurry in the breath— An ecstasy of parting Denominated “Death”—
No brigadier throughout the year So civic as the jay. A neighbor and a warrior too, With shrill felicity Pursuing winds that censure us
116 I had some things that I called m… And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities.
879 Each Second is the last Perhaps, recalls the Man Just measuring unconsciousness The Sea and Spar between.