#AmericanWriters
218 Is it true, dear Sue? Are there two? I shouldn’t like to come For fear of joggling Him!
598 Three times—we parted—Breath—and… Three times—He would not go— But strove to stir the lifeless F… The Waters—strove to stay.
488 Myself was formed’—a Carpenter’— An unpretending time My Plane’—and I, together wrought Before a Builder came’—
763 He told a homely tale And spotted it with tears— Upon his infant face was set The Cicatrice of years—
848 Just as He spoke it from his Hand… This Edifice remain— A Turret more, a Turret less Dishonor his Design—
The Clover’s simple Fame Remembered of the Cow - Is better than enameled Realms Of notability. Renown perceives itself
An everywhere of silver, With ropes of sand To keep it from effacing The track called land.
286 That after Horror — that ’twas us… That passed the mouldering Pier — Just as the Granite Crumb let go… Our Savior, by a Hair —
907 Till Death’—is narrow Loving’— The scantest Heart extant Will hold you till your privilege Of Finiteness’—be spent’—
434 To love thee Year by Year— May less appear Than sacrifice, and cease— However, dear,
The Hills in Purple syllables The Day’s Adventures tell To little Groups of Continents Just going Home from School.
586 We talked as Girls do— Fond, and late— We speculated fair, on every subje… Of ours, none affair—
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
“Heaven” has different Signs—to m… Sometimes, I think that Noon Is but a symbol of the Place— And when again, at Dawn, A mighty look runs round the Worl…
All men for Honor hardest work But are not known to earn - Paid after they have ceased to wor… In Infamy or Urn -