#AmericanWriters
678 Wolfe demanded during dying “Which obtain the Day”? “General, the British”—"Easy” Answered Wolfe “to die”
178 I cautious, scanned my little life… I winnowed what would fade From what would last till Heads l… Should be a-dreaming laid.
610 You’ll find—it when you try to die… The Easier to let go— For recollecting such as went— You could not spare—you know.
642 Me from Myself — to banish — Had I Art — Impregnable my Fortress Unto All Heart —
469 The Red—Blaze—is the Morning— The Violet—is Noon— The Yellow—Day—is falling— And after that—is none—
939 What I see not, I better see— Through Faith—my Hazel Eye Has periods of shutting— But, No lid has Memory—
The butterfly obtains But little sympathy Though favorably mentioned In Entomology - Because he travels freely
1763 Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.
33 If recollecting were forgetting, Then I remember not. And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot.
220 Could I—then—shut the door— Lest my beseeching face—at last— Rejected—be—of Her?
XXV BELSHAZZAR had a letter,— He never had but one; Belshazzar’s correspondent Concluded and begun
131 Besides the Autumn poets sing A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of the Haze—
Lives he in any other world My faith cannot reply Before it was imperative ’Twas all distinct to me -
A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind. The vane a little to the east
381 A Secret told— Ceases to be a Secret—then— A Secret—kept— That—can appal but One—