#AmericanWriters
You said that I “was Great”'—one… Then “Great” it be’—if that pleas… Or Small’—or any size at all’— Nay’—I’m the size suit Thee’— Tall’—like the Stag’—would that?
235 The Court is far away— No Umpire—have I— My Sovereign is offended— To gain his grace—I’d die!
II OUR share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning.
XV I know some lonely houses off the… A robber ’d like the look of,— Wooden barred, And windows hanging low,
954 The Chemical conviction That Nought be lost Enable in Disaster My fractured Trust—
884 As Everywhere of Silver With Ropes of Sand To keep it from effacing The Track called Land.
915 Faith’—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not’— Too slender for the eye
556 The Brain, within its Groove Runs evenly—and true— But let a Splinter swerve— ’Twere easier for You—
LXII BEFORE I got my eye put out, I liked as well to see As other creatures that have eyes, And know no other way.
396 There is a Languor of the Life More imminent than Pain— ’Tis Pain’s Successor—When the S… Has suffered all it can—
621 I asked no other thing— No other—was denied— I offered Being—for it— The Mighty Merchant sneered—
To mend each tattered Faith There is a needle fair Though no appearance indicate ’Tis threaded in the Air And though it do not wear
938 Fairer through Fading—as the Day Into the Darkness dips away— Half Her Complexion of the Sun— Hindering—Haunting—Perishing—
The wind tapped like a tired man, And like a host, ‘Come in,’ I boldly answered; entered then My residence within A rapid, footless guest,
669 No Romance sold unto Could so enthrall a Man As the perusal of His Individual One—