#AmericanWriters
887 We outgrow love, like other things And put it in the Drawer— Till it an Antique fashion shows— Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
282 How noteless Men, and Pleiads, st… Until a sudden sky Reveals the fact that One is rapt Forever from the Eye—
423 The Months have ends—the Years—a… No Power can untie To stretch a little further A Skein of Misery—
433 Knows how to forget! But could It teach it? Easiest of Arts, they say When one learn how
CXXXVI I STEPPED from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea.
580 I gave myself to Him— And took Himself, for Pay, The solemn contract of a Life Was ratified, this way—
417 Is it dead—Find it— Out of sound—Out of sight— “Happy”? Which is wiser— You, or the Wind?
486 I was the slightest in the House— I took the smallest Room— At night, my little Lamp, and Boo… And one Geranium—
Each life converges to some centre Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal, Admitted scarcely to itself, it ma…
958 We met as Sparks—Diverging Flint… Sent various—scattered ways— We parted as the Central Flint Were cloven with an Adze—
28 So has a Daisy vanished From the fields today— So tiptoed many a slipper To Paradise away—
463 I live with Him — I see His face… I go no more away For Visitor — or Sundown — Death's single privacy
Not Sickness stains the Brave, Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, But an adjourning Heart -
377 To lose one’s faith—surpass The loss of an Estate— Because Estates can be Replenished—faith cannot—
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity