#AmericanWriters #CommonMeasure #Epigram
146 On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair—
Oh Shadow on the Grass, Art thou a Step or not? Go make thee fair my Candidate My nominated Heart - Oh Shadow on the Grass
456 So well that I can live without— I love thee—then How well is that… As well as Jesus? Prove it me
580 I gave myself to Him— And took Himself, for Pay, The solemn contract of a Life Was ratified, this way—
807 Expectation—is Contentment— Gain—Satiety— But Satiety—Conviction Of Necessity
261 Put up my lute! What of—my Music! Since the sole ear I cared to cha… Passive—as Granite—laps My Music…
440 ’Tis customary as we part A trinket—to confer— It helps to stimulate the faith When Lovers be afar—
Are Friends Delight or Pain? Could Bounty but remain Riches were good - But if they only stay Ampler to fly away
673 The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon the face of Noon…
XXVII BECAUSE I could not stop for D… He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Oursel… And Immortality.
353 A happy lip—breaks sudden— It doesn’t state you how It contemplated—smiling— Just consummated—now—
XIII THE soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
XVII SHE rose to his requirement, drop… The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
A drop fell on the apple tree Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook,
460 I know where Wells grow’—Droughtl… Deep dug’—for Summer days’— Where Mosses go no more away’— And Pebble’—safely plays’—