People/D
The quotations of
American poet
1830–1886
37 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Nature and Emotion. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,— The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty.
I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol!