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Winter under cultivation
Winter under cultivation Is as arable as Spring.
Fragment: Rome and Nature
Rome has fallen, ye see it lying Heaped in undistinguished ruin: Nature is alone undying.
From the French
ÆGLE, beauty and poet, has two little crimes; She makes her own face, and does not make her rhymes.
"Faith" is a fine invention
"Faith" is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see -- But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
Elegy
BEHOLD the blessings of a lucky lot! My play is _damned_, and Lady Noel _not_.
The words the happy say
The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful --
Quem Deus Vult Perdere Prius Dementat
God maddens him whom't is his will to lose, And gives the choice of death or phrenzy--choose.
Fragment: May the Limner
When May is painting with her colours gay The landscape sketched by April her sweet twin...
Of Nature I shall have enough
Of Nature I shall have enough When I have entered these Entitled to a Bumble bee's Familiarities.
Happy Thought
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Fame's Boys and Girls, who never die
Fame's Boys and Girls, who never die And are too seldom born --
Fragment: A Serpent-Face
His face was like a snake's--wrinkled and loose And withered--
Not at Home to Callers
Not at Home to Callers Says the Naked Tree -- Bonnet due in April -- Wishing you Good Day --
My life has been the poem
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
Epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
In this short Life
In this short Life That only lasts an hour How much -- how little -- is Within our power
Defrauded I a Butterfly --
Defrauded I a Butterfly -- The lawful Heir -- for Thee --
Fragment: Death in Life
My head is heavy, my limbs are weary, And it is not life that makes me move.