#AmericanWriters
131 Besides the Autumn poets sing A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of the Haze—
983 Ideals are the Fairly Oil With which we help the Wheel But when the Vital Axle turns The Eye rejects the Oil.
807 Expectation—is Contentment— Gain—Satiety— But Satiety—Conviction Of Necessity
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown - Who ponders this tremendous scene… This whole Experiment of Green -
LXIII Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair.
587 Empty my Heart, of Thee— Its single Artery— Begin, and leave Thee out— Simply Extinction’s Date—
508 I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Thei… The name They dropped upon my fac… With water, in the country church Is finished using, now,
734 If He were living—dare I ask— And how if He be dead— And so around the Words I went— Of meeting them—afraid—
900 What did They do since I saw The… Were They industrious? So many questions to put Them Have I the eagerness
Love—is that later Thing than Dea… More previous—than Life— Confirms it at its entrance—And Usurps it—of itself— Tastes Death—the first—to hand th…
A PRECIOUS, mouldering pleasur… To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore… A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take,
963 A nearness to Tremendousness— An Agony procures— Affliction ranges Boundlessness— Vicinity to Laws
867 Escaping backward to perceive The Sea upon our place— Escaping forward, to confront His glittering Embrace—
Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise. Three times, 't is said, a sinking… Comes up to face the skies, And then declines forever
Rearrange a “Wife’s” Affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man! Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness…