#AmericanWriters
892 Who occupies this House? A Stranger I must judge Since No one know His Circumstan… ’Tis well the name and age
The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin,—so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow. His gait was soundless, like the b…
Could Hope inspect her Basis Her Craft were done - Has a fictitious Charter Or it has none - Balked in the vastest instance
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
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
751 My Worthiness is all my Doubt— His Merit—all my fear— Contrasting which, my quality Do lowlier—appear—
648 Promise This—When You be Dying— Some shall summon Me— Mine belong Your latest Sighing— Mine—to Belt Your Eye—
822 This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself alone
God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starv… My poignant luxury To own it, touch it, prove the fea…
968 Fitter to see Him, I may be For the long Hindrance—Grace—to… With Summers, and with Winters, g… Some passing Year—A trait bestow
115 What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar Traveller comes? Who is the Landlord?
453 Love—thou art high— I cannot climb thee— But, were it Two— Who know but we—
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
720 No Prisoner be— Where Liberty— Himself—abide with Thee—
Water makes many Beds For those averse to sleep - Its awful chamber open stands - Its Curtains blandly sweep - Abhorrent is the Rest