He scanned it — staggered — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He scanned it -- staggered -- Dropped the Loop To Past or Period -- Caught helpless at a sense as ...
He scanned it -- staggered -- Dropped the Loop To Past or Period -- Caught helpless at a sense as ...
Escaping backward to perceive The Sea upon our place -- Escaping forward, to confront His glittering Embrace -- Retreating up, ...
These are the days when Birds come back -- A very few -- a Bird or two -- To take ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
(Jeremiah, xxxi. 18-20) My God, till I received Thy stroke, How like a beast was I! So unaccustom'd to the ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
"Every time we get a big gale around here some people just refuse to batten down." we estimate that ice ...
The sea runs back against itself With scarcely time for breaking wave To cannonade a slatey shelf And thunder under ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
O God! if this indeed be all That Life can show to me; If on my aching brow may fall ...
I have gone backward in the work, The labour has not sped, Drowsy and dark my spirit lies, Heavy and ...
Call me away; there's nothing here, That wins my soul to stay; Then let me leave this prospect drear, And ...
A prisoner in a dungeon deep Sat musing silently; His head was rested on his hand, His elbow on his ...
I bended unto me a bough of May, That I might see and smell: It bore it in a sort ...
How beautiful the earth is still, To thee - how full of happiness! How little fraught with real ill, Or ...
O constellations of the early night, That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have ...
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's face Burn, burn against the sunset; now the cold Invades our very ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
I heard said 'Cats that walk by their wild lone' but Henry had need of friends. They disappeared Shall I ...
'Oyez, oyez!' The Man Who Did Not Deliver is before you for his deliverance, my lords. He stands, as charged ...
Peter's not friendly. He gives me sideways looks. The architecture is far from reassuring. I feel uneasy. A pity,â?"the interview ...
I love the naked ages long ago When statues were gilded by Apollo, When men and women of agility Could ...
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
WHEN Nature her great master-piece design'd, And fram'd her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all ...
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