#AmericanWriters
Remorse– is Memory– awake - Her Parties all astir - A Presence of Departed Acts - At window– and at Door – Its Past - set down before the S…
789 On a Columnar Self— How ample to rely In Tumult—or Extremity— How good the Certainty
437 Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence—is denied them. They fling their Speech
Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee,
848 Just as He spoke it from his Hand… This Edifice remain— A Turret more, a Turret less Dishonor his Design—
468 The Manner of its Death When Certain it must die— ’Tis deemed a privilege to choose— ’Twas Major Andre’s Way—
319 Of Bronze — and Blaze — The North — tonight — So adequate — it forms — So preconcerted with itself —
Of all the souls that stand create I have elected one. When sense from spirit files away, And subterfuge is done; When that which is and that which…
XXIII A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw.
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—
XL I NEVER lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod; Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!
998 Best Things dwell out of Sight The Pearl—the Just—Our Thought. Most shun the Public Air Legitimate, and Rare—
LXXIX I YEARS had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before
You said that I “was Great”'—one… Then “Great” it be’—if that pleas… Or Small’—or any size at all’— Nay’—I’m the size suit Thee’— Tall’—like the Stag’—would that?
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—