#AmericanWriters
713 Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous—An Incense Beyond Necessity—
827 The Only News I know Is Bulletins all Day From Immortality. The Only Shows I see—
9 Through lane it lay—through brambl… Through clearing and through wood— Banditti often passed us Upon the lonely road.
292 If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve—
873 Ribbons of the Year— Multitude Brocade— Worn to Nature’s Party once Then, as flung aside
This was a Poet —It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings — And Attar so immense From the familiar species
913 And this of all my Hopes This, is the silent end Bountiful colored, my Morning ros… Early and sere, its end
461 A Wife—at daybreak I shall be— Sunrise—Hast thou a Flag for me? At Midnight, I am but a Maid, How short it takes to make a Brid…
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…
166 I met a King this afternoon! He had not on a Crown indeed, A little Palmleaf Hat was all, And he was barefoot, I’m afraid!
277 What if I say I shall not wait! What if I burst the fleshly Gate— And pass escaped—to thee! What if I file this Mortal—off—
463 I live with Him — I see His face… I go no more away For Visitor — or Sundown — Death's single privacy
184 A transport one cannot contain May yet a transport be— Though God forbid it lift the lid… Unto its Ecstasy!
230 We—Bee and I—live by the quaffing… ’Tisn’t all Hock—with us— Life has its Ale— But it’s many a lay of the Dim Bu…
127 “Houses”—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
