#AmericanWriters
My life closed twice before its cl… It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me So huge, so hopeless to conceive
607 Of nearness to her sundered Thing… The Soul has special times— When Dimness—looks the Oddity— Distinctness—easy—se ems—
872 As the Starved Maelstrom laps the… As the Vulture teased Forces the Broods in lonely Valle… As the Tiger eased
LXVI WHEN I hoped I feared, Since I hoped I dared; Everywhere alone As a church remain;
49 I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod. Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!
XXIV WHETHER my bark went down at se… Whether she met with gales, Whether to isles enchanted She bent her docile sails;
888 When I have seen the Sun emerge From His amazing House— And leave a Day at every Door A Deed, in every place—
XL THE thought beneath so slight a f… Is more distinctly seen,— As laces just reveal the surge, Or mists the Apennine.
403 The Winters are so short— I’m hardly justified In sending all the Birds away— And moving into Pod—
451 The Outer—from the Inner Derives its Magnitude— 'Tis Duke, or Dwarf, according As is the Central Mood—
774 It is a lonesome Glee— Yet sanctifies the Mind— With fair association— Afar upon the Wind
312 Her—“last Poems”— Poets—ended— Silver—perished—with her Tongue— Not on Record—bubbled other,
359 I gained it so— By Climbing slow— By Catching at the Twigs that gro… Between the Bliss—and me—
796 Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy— For Greatness, that is ill at eas… In minor Company—
No rack can torture me, My soul’s at liberty Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw,