#AmericanWriters
I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love, but since
How firm Eternity must look To crumbling men like me The only Adamant Estate In all Identity - How mighty to the insecure
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 -
6 Frequently the wood are pink— Frequently are brown. Frequently the hills undress Behind my native town.
IF I can stop one heart from brea… I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching… Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin
637 The Child’s faith is new— Whole—like His Principle— Wide—like the Sunrise On fresh Eyes—
845 Be Mine the Doom— Sufficient Fame— To perish in Her Hand!
His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill. He laboreth at every tree,— A worm his utmost goal.
‘T was just this time last year I… I know I heard the corn, When I was carried by the farms,— It had the tassels on. I thought how yellow it would look
19 A sepal, petal, and a thorn Upon a common summer’s morn— A flask of Dew—A Bee or two— A Breeze—a caper in the trees—
Ended, ere it begun - The Title was scarcely told When the Preface perished from Co… The Story, unrevealed - Had it been mine, to print!
God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starv… My poignant luxury To own it, touch it, prove the fea…
70 “Arcturus” is his other name— I’d rather call him “Star.” It’s very mean of Science To go and interfere!
15 The Guest is gold and crimson— An Opal guest and gray— Of Ermine is his doublet— His Capuchin gay—
954 The Chemical conviction That Nought be lost Enable in Disaster My fractured Trust—