#AmericanWriters
438 Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forget she wore it at her Heart Because she breathed against Was Treason twixt?
Delight becomes pictorial When viewed through pain,— More fair, because impossible That any gain. The mountaln at a given distance
951 As Frost is best conceived By force of its Result— Affliction is inferred By subsequent effect—
378 I saw no Way—The Heavens were st… I felt the Columns close— The Earth reversed her Hemisphere… I touched the Universe—
497 He strained my faith— Did he find it supple? Shook my strong trust— Did it then—yield?
309 For largest Woman’s Hearth I kne… ’Tis little I can do— And yet the largest Woman’s Heart Could hold an Arrow—too—
116 I had some things that I called m… And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities.
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
872 As the Starved Maelstrom laps the… As the Vulture teased Forces the Broods in lonely Valle… As the Tiger eased
257 Delight is as the flight— Or in the Ratio of it, As the Schools would say— The Rainbow’s way—
769 One and One—are One— Two—be finished using— Well enough for schools— But for minor Choosing—
Out of sight? What of that? See the Bird —reach it! Curve by Curve —Sweep by Sweep — Round the Steep Air — Danger! What is that to Her?
682 'Twould ease — a Butterfly — Elate — a Bee — Thou'rt neither — Neither — thy capacity —
589 The Night was wide, and furnished… With but a single Star— That often as a Cloud it met— Blew out itself—for fear—
133 As Children bid the Guest “Good… And then reluctant turn— My flowers raise their pretty lips… Then put their nightgowns on.