#AmericanWriters
Tell all the Truth but tell it sl… Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children ease…
Lives he in any other world My faith cannot reply Before it was imperative ’Twas all distinct to me -
413 I never felt at Home–Below– And in the Handsome Skies I shall not feel at Home–I know– I don’t like Paradise–
240 Ah, Moon—and Star! You are very far— But were no one Farther than you—
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…
133 As Children bid the Guest “Good… And then reluctant turn— My flowers raise their pretty lips… Then put their nightgowns on.
568 We learned the Whole of Love— The Alphabet—the Words— A Chapter—then the mighty Book— Then—Revelation closed—
Volcanoes be in Sicily And South America I judge from my Geography - Volcanos nearer here A Lava step at any time
Had we our senses But perhaps ’tis well they’re not… So intimate with Madness He’s liable with them Had we the eyes without our Head—
Awake ye muses nine, sing me a str… Unwind the solemn twine, and tie m… Oh the Earth was made for lovers,… For sighing, and gentle whispering… All things do go a courting, in ea…
694 The Heaven vests for Each In that small Deity It craved the grace to worship Some bashful Summer’s Day—
632 The Brain—is wider than the Sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain With ease—and You—beside—
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
422 More Life—went out—when He went Than Ordinary Breath— Lit with a finer Phosphor— Requiring in the Quench—
A clock stopped—not the mantel’s Geneva’s farthest skill Can’t put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came on the trinket!