#AmericanWriters
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. Unmoved, she notes the chariot’s p…
187 How many times these low feet stag… Only the soldered mouth can tell— Try—can you stir the awful rivet— Try—can you lift the hasps of stee…
10 My wheel is in the dark! I cannot see a spoke Yet know its dripping feet Go round and round.
100 A science—so the Savants say, “Comparative Anatomy”— By which a single bone— Is made a secret to unfold
How firm Eternity must look To crumbling men like me The only Adamant Estate In all Identity - How mighty to the insecure
The inundation of the Spring Enlarges every soul - It sweeps the tenement away But leaves the Water whole - In which the soul at first estrang…
164 Mama never forgets her birds, Though in another tree— She looks down just as often And just as tenderly
46 I keep my pledge. I was not called— Death did not notice me. I bring my Rose.
74 A Lady red—amid the Hill Her annual secret keeps! A Lady white, within the Field In placid Lily sleeps!
276 Many a phrase has the English lan… I have heard but one— Low as the laughter of the Cricke… Loud, as the Thunder’s Tongue—
434 To love thee Year by Year— May less appear Than sacrifice, and cease— However, dear,
282 How noteless Men, and Pleiads, st… Until a sudden sky Reveals the fact that One is rapt Forever from the Eye—
192 Poor little Heart! Did they forget thee? Then dinna care! Then dinna care! Proud little Heart!
I years had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before Stare vacant into mine
On my volcano grows the Grass A meditative spot - An acre for a Bird to choose Would be the General thought - How red the Fire rocks below -