#AmericanWriters
434 To love thee Year by Year— May less appear Than sacrifice, and cease— However, dear,
179 If I could bribe them by a Rose I’d bring them every flower that g… From Amherst to Cashmere! I would not stop for night, or sto…
I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love, but since
284 The Drop, that wrestles in the Se… Forgets her own locality— As I—toward Thee— She knows herself an incense small…
28 So has a Daisy vanished From the fields today— So tiptoed many a slipper To Paradise away—
208 The Rose did caper on her cheek— Her Bodice rose and fell— Her pretty speech—like drunken men… Did stagger pitiful—
Tell all the truth but tell it sla… Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The truth’s superb surprise; As lightning to the children eased
182 If I shouldn’t be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
XIX PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.
257 Delight is as the flight— Or in the Ratio of it, As the Schools would say— The Rainbow’s way—
It sounded as if the Streets were… And then– the Streets stood stil… Eclipse - was all we could see at… And Awe - was all we could feel. By and by - the boldest stole out…
202 My Eye is fuller than my vase— Her Cargo—is of Dew— And still—my Heart—my Eye outweig… East India—for you!
831 Dying! To be afraid of thee One must to thine Artillery Have left exposed a Friend— Than thine old Arrow is a Shot
There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness there; Never mind faded forests, Austin,
990 Not all die early, dying young— Maturity of Fate Is consummated equally In Ages, or a Night—