#AmericanWriters
I’m saying every day “If I should be a Queen, tomorrow… I’d do this way — And so I deck, a little, If it be, I wake a Bourbon,
There’s been a death in the opposi… As lately as to-day. I know it by the numb look Such houses have alway. The neighbors rustle in and out,
Could mortal lip divine The undeveloped Freight Of a delivered syllable ‘Twould crumble with the weight.
808 So set its Sun in Thee What Day be dark to me— What Distance—far— So I the Ships may see
523 Sweet — You forgot — but I rememb… Every time — for Two — So that the Sum be never hindered Through Decay of You —
XXXIV WHO never lost, are unprepared A coronet to find; Who never thirsted, flagons And cooling tamarind.
350 They leave us with the Infinite. But He—is not a man— His fingers are the size of fists— His fists, the size of men—
Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
XXI HE ate and drank the precious wor… His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust.
597 It always felt to me—a wrong To that Old Moses—done— To let him see—the Canaan— Without the entering—
927 Absent Place—an April Day— Daffodils a-blow Homesick curiosity To the Souls that snow—
XXXII HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the wor… And never stops at all,
XIX I STARTED early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me,
Not Sickness stains the Brave, Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, But an adjourning Heart -
621 I asked no other thing— No other—was denied— I offered Being—for it— The Mighty Merchant sneered—