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Robbed by Death -- but that was easy --
Robbed by Death -- but that was easy -- To the failing Eye I could hold the latest Glowing -- Robbed by Liberty For Her Jugular Defences -- This, too, I endured -- Hint of Glory -- it afforded -- For
Our journey had advanced --
Our journey had advanced -- Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road -- Eternity -- by Term -- Our pace took sudden awe -- Our feet -- reluctant -- led -- Before -- were Cities -- b
Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre --
Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre -- Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action -- Maintain -- The Sun -- upon a Morning meets them -- The Wind -- No nearer Neighbor -- have they -- But God -- The
They shut me up in Prose --
They shut me up in Prose -- As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet -- Because they liked me "still" -- Still! Could themself have peeped -- And seen my Brain -- go round -- They might as wi
A little Dog that wags his tail
A little Dog that wags his tail And knows no other joy Of such a little Dog am I Reminded by a Boy Who gambols all the living Day Without an earthly cause Because he is a little Boy I honestly suppos
Immured in Heaven!
Immured in Heaven! What a Cell! Let every Bondage be, Thou sweetest of the Universe, Like that which ravished thee!
I lost a World -- the other day!
I lost a World -- the other day! Has Anybody found? You'll know it by the Row of Stars Around its forehead bound. A Rich man -- might not notice it -- Yet -- to my frugal Eye, Of more Esteem than Duc
Is Heaven a Physician?
Is Heaven a Physician? They say that He can heal -- But Medicine Posthumous Is unavailable -- Is Heaven an Exchequer? They speak of what we owe -- But that negotiation I'm not a Party to --
The Life we have is very great.
The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity. But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Re
Faith -- is the Pierless Bridge
Faith -- is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not -- Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side
Fragment: 'What Men Gain Fairly'
What men gain fairly--that they should possess, And children may inherit idleness, From him who earns it--This is understood; Private injustice may be general good. But he who gains by base and armed
Prayer is the little implement
Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence -- is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it -- in God's Ear -- If then He hear -- This sums the Apparatus Comprised
The last of Summer is Delight --
The last of Summer is Delight -- Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -- Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it -- nameless as it is -- Without celestial Mail -- Audacious as without a
If I should cease to bring a Rose
If I should cease to bring a Rose Upon a festal day, 'Twill be because beyond the Rose I have been called away -- If I should cease to take the names My buds commemorate -- 'Twill be because Death's
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower And casually glance Would scarcely cause one to suspect The minor Circumstance Assisting in the Bright Affair So intricately done Then offered as a Butterfly To
As if the Sea should part
As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea -- And that -- a further -- and the Three But a presumption be -- Of Periods of Seas -- Unvisited of Shores -- Themselves the Verge of Seas to be -- E
Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil
I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow. And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swel
The first Day that I was a Life
The first Day that I was a Life I recollect it -- How still -- That last Day that I was a Life I recollect it -- as well -- 'Twas stiller -- though the first Was still -- "Twas empty -- but the first
When Roses cease to bloom, Sir,
When Roses cease to bloom, Sir, And Violets are done -- When Bumblebees in solemn flight Have passed beyond the Sun -- The hand that paused to gather Upon this Summer's day Will idle lie -- in Auburn
Summum Bonum
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee: All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem: In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea: Breath a
Hope is a subtle Glutton --
Hope is a subtle Glutton -- He feeds upon the Fair -- And yet -- inspected closely What Abstinence is there -- His is the Halcyon Table -- That never seats but One -- And whatsoever is consumed The s
Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling
Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling -- Sometimes -- scalps a Tree -- Her Green People recollect it When they do not die -- Fainter Leaves -- to Further Seasons -- Dumbly testify -- We -- who have the
Summer laid her simple Hat
Summer laid her simple Hat On its boundless Shelf -- Unobserved -- a Ribbon slipt, Snatch it for yourself. Summer laid her supple Glove In its sylvan Drawer -- Wheresoe'er, or was she -- The demand o
Home-Thoughts, From the Sea
Nobly, nobly, Cape Saint Vincent to the Northwest died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay; In the dimmest Nort