#AmericanWriters
843 I made slow Riches but my Gain Was steady as the Sun And every Night, it numbered more Than the preceding One
954 The Chemical conviction That Nought be lost Enable in Disaster My fractured Trust—
LVI Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency!
They say that ‘time assuages,’— Time never did assuage; An actual suffering strengthens, As sinews do, with age. Time is a test of trouble,
284 The Drop, that wrestles in the Se… Forgets her own locality— As I—toward Thee— She knows herself an incense small…
402 I pay—in Satin Cash— You did not state—your price— A Petal, for a Paragraph It near as I can guess—
XXX WE play at paste, Till qualified for pearl, Then drop the paste, And deem ourself a fool.
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
164 Mama never forgets her birds, Though in another tree— She looks down just as often And just as tenderly
708 I sometimes drop it, for a Quick— The Thought to be alive— Anonymous Delight to know— And Madder—to conceive—
“Arcturus” is his other name’— I’d rather call him “Star.” It’s very mean of Science To go and interfere! I slew a worm the other day’—
385 Smiling back from Coronation May be Luxury— On the Heads that started with us… Being’s Peasantry—
740 You taught me Waiting with Myself… Appointment strictly kept’— You taught me fortitude of Fate’— This’—also’—I have learnt’—
727 Precious to Me—She still shall be… Though She forget the name I bear… The fashion of the Gown I wear— The very Color of My Hair—
480 “Why do I love” You, Sir? Because— The Wind does not require the Gra… To answer—Wherefore when He pass