#AmericanWriters
929 How far is it to Heaven? As far as Death this way— Of River or of Ridge beyond Was no discovery.
If I can stop one heart from brea… I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching… Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin
On my volcano grows the Grass A meditative spot - An acre for a Bird to choose Would be the General thought - How red the Fire rocks below -
669 No Romance sold unto Could so enthrall a Man As the perusal of His Individual One—
420 You’ll know it—as you know ’tis N… By Glory— As you do the Sun— By Glory—
No rack can torture me, My soul’s at liberty Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw,
661 Could I but ride indefinite As doth the Meadow Bee And visit only where I liked And No one visit me
66 So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise— Hidden away, cunningly, From saga…
A little Snow was here and there Disseminated in her Hair - Since she and I had met and playe… Decade had gathered to Decade - But Time had added not obtained
882 A Shade upon the mind there passe… As when on Noon A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses Remembering
783 The Birds begun at Four o’clock— Their period for Dawn— A Music numerous as space— But neighboring as Noon—
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise. Three times, 't is said, a sinking… Comes up to face the skies, And then declines forever
Of so divine a Loss We enter but the Gain, Indemnity for Loneliness That such a Bliss has been.
Tell as a Marksman - were forgot… Tell - this Day endures Ruddy as that coeval Apple The Tradition bears - Fresh as Mankind that humble stor…