#AmericanWriters
I MEANT to have but modest need… Such as content, and heaven; Within my income these could lie, And life and I keep even. But since the last included both,
I counted till they danced so Their slippers leaped the town, And then I took a pencil To note the rebels down. And then they grew so jolly
Remembrance has a Rear and Front… ’Tis something like a House - It has a Garret also For Refuse and the Mouse. Besides the deepest Cellar
Are Friends Delight or Pain? Could Bounty but remain Riches were good - But if they only stay Ampler to fly away
THE brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ’T were easier for you To put the water back
The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low,— He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky. The leaves unhooked themselves fro…
222 When Katie walks, this simple pai… When Katie runs unwearied they fo… When Katie kneels, their loving h… Ah! Katie! Smile at Fortune, wit…
113 Our share of night to bear— Our share of morning— Our blank in bliss to fill Our blank in scorning—
456 So well that I can live without— I love thee—then How well is that… As well as Jesus? Prove it me
I NEVER lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod; Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God! Angels, twice descending,
HE ate and drank the precious wor… His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days,
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,— The sweeping up the heart,
122 A something in a summer’s Day As slow her flambeaux burn away Which solemnizes me. A something in a summer’s noon—
205 I should not dare to leave my frie… Because—because if he should die While I was gone—and I—too late— Should reach the Heart that wante…
195 For this’—accepted Breath’— Through it’—compete with Death’— The fellow cannot touch this Crow… By it’—my title take’—