#AmericanWriters
543 I fear a Man of frugal Speech— I fear a Silent Man— Haranguer—I can overtake— Or Babbler—entertain—
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…
933 Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words
966 All forgot for recollecting Just a paltry One— All forsook, for just a Stranger’… New Accompanying—
Glory is that bright tragic thing That for an instant Means Dominion - Warms some poor name That never felt the Sun,
878 The Sun is gay or stark According to our Deed. If Merry, He is merrier— If eager for the Dead
993 We miss Her, not because We see— The Absence of an Eye— Except its Mind accompany Abridge Society
169 In Ebon Box, when years have flow… To reverently peer, Wiping away the velvet dust Summers have sprinkled there!
They shut me up in Prose— As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet— Because they liked me “still”— Still! Could themself have peeped…
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!
804 No Notice gave She, but a Change… No Message, but a Sigh— For Whom, the Time did not suffic… That She should specify.
359 I gained it so— By Climbing slow— By Catching at the Twigs that gro… Between the Bliss—and me—
XLIX A POOR torn heart, a tattered he… That sat it down to rest, Nor noticed that the ebbing day Flowed silver to the west,
922 Those who have been in the Grave… Those who begin Today— Equally perish from our Practise— Death is the other way—
Before you thought of spring, Except as a surmise, You see, God bless his suddenness… A fellow in the skies Of independent hues,