#AmericanWriters
929 How far is it to Heaven? As far as Death this way— Of River or of Ridge beyond Was no discovery.
933 Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words
22 All these my banners be. I sow my pageantry In May— It rises train by train—
395 Reverse cannot befall That fine Prosperity Whose Sources are interior— As soon—Adversity
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—
They dropped like flakes, they dro… Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the lune A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless gras…
A Death blow is a Life blow to S… Who till they died, did not alive… Who had they lived, had died but w… They died, Vitality begun.
199 I’m “wife”—I’ve finished that— That other state— I’m Czar—I’m “Woman” now— It’s safer so—
872 As the Starved Maelstrom laps the… As the Vulture teased Forces the Broods in lonely Valle… As the Tiger eased
475 Doom is the House without the Doo… ’Tis entered from the Sun— And then the Ladder’s thrown away… Because Escape—is done—
772 The hallowing of Pain Like hallowing of Heaven, Obtains at a corporeal cost— The Summit is not given
752 So the Eyes accost’—and sunder In an Audience’— Stamped’—occasionally’—forever’— So may Countenance
A Pang is more conspicuous in Spr… In contrast with the things that s… Not Birds entirely– but Minds – Minute Effulgencies and Winds - When what they sung for is undone
70 “Arcturus” is his other name— I’d rather call him “Star.” It’s very mean of Science To go and interfere!
897 How fortunate the Grave— All Prizes to obtain— Successful certain, if at last, First Suitor not in vain.