#AmericanWriters
676 Least Bee that brew— A Honey’s Weight Content Her smallest fraction hel… The Amber Quantity—
I started Early– Took my Dog – And visited the Sea - The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me - And Frigates - in the Upper Floo…
Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight,
Silence is all we dread. There’s Ransom in a Voice - But Silence is Infinity. Himself have not a face.
1670 In Winter in my Room I came upon a Worm— Pink, lank and warm— But as he was a worm
Tell all the Truth but tell it sl… Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children ease…
725 Where Thou art’—that’—is Home’— Cashmere’—or Calvary’—the same’— Degree’—or Shame’— I scarce esteem Location’s Name’—
I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come,
SURGEONS must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit,—Life!
230 We’—Bee and I’—live by the quaffi… ’Tisn’t all Hock’—with us’— Life has its Ale’— But it’s many a lay of the Dim Bu…
898 How happy I was if I could forget To remember how sad I am Would be an easy adversity But the recollecting of Bloom
235 The Court is far away— No Umpire—have I— My Sovereign is offended— To gain his grace—I’d die!
MUCH madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority In this, as all, prevails.
189 It’s such a little thing to weep— So short a thing to sigh— And yet—by Trades—the size of the… We men and women die!
I never hear the word 'escape’ Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude. I never hear of prisons broad