#AmericanWriters
282 How noteless Men, and Pleiads, st… Until a sudden sky Reveals the fact that One is rapt Forever from the Eye—
873 Ribbons of the Year— Multitude Brocade— Worn to Nature’s Party once Then, as flung aside
562 Conjecturing a Climate Of unsuspended Suns— Adds poignancy to Winter— The Shivering Fancy turns
711 Strong Draughts of Their Refresh… To drink—enables Mine Through Desert or the Wilderness As bore it Sealed Wine—
452 The Malay—took the Pearl— Not—I—the Earl— I—feared the Sea—too much Unsanctified—to touch—
A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard— Till morning touching mountain—
951 As Frost is best conceived By force of its Result— Affliction is inferred By subsequent effect—
223 I Came to buy a smile—today— But just a single smile— The smallest one upon your face Will suit me just as well—
417 Is it dead—Find it— Out of sound—Out of sight— “Happy”? Which is wiser— You, or the Wind?
LX A SHADY friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.
XXXII HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the wor… And never stops at all,
XII I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf
311 It sifts from Leaden Sieves— It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road—
501 This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond— Invisible, as Music— But positive, as Sound—
353 A happy lip—breaks sudden— It doesn’t state you how It contemplated—smiling— Just consummated—now—