I meant to have but modest needs - Such as Content - and Heaven - Within my income - these could lie And Life and I - keep even - But since the last - included both - It would suffice my Prayer But ju...
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes - I wonder if It weighs like Mine - Or has an Easier size - I wonder if They bore it long - Or did it just begin - I could not tell the Date of ...
I miei fiori son per i prigionieri, Occhi velati dalla lunga attesa, Dita cui fu negato cogliere, Pazienti fino al Paradiso. Per questi, se potranno sussurrare Dell'alba e di brughiere, Non hanno alt...
I miei vecchi nemici non mi hanno battuto: questo, anzi, sarebbe il momento preciso di vendicarmi sui loro discendenti. Potrei farlo, nessuno potrebbe impedirmelo... Ma a che scopo? Non ho voglia di c...
I narcotici non possono calmare il dente che rode l'anima.
I never saw a Moor - I never saw the Sea - Yet know I how the Heather looks And what a Billow be - I never spoke with God Nor visited in Heaven - Yet certain am I of the spot As if the Checks were giv...
I often passed the Village When going home from school - And wondered what they did there - And why it was so still - I did not know the year then, In which my call would come - Earlier, by the Dial, ...
I play at Riches - to appease The Clamoring for Gold - It kept me from a Thief, I think, For often, overbold With Want, and Opportunity - I could have done a Sin And been Myself that easy Thing An ind...
I prayed, at first, a little Girl, Because they told me to - But stopped, when qualified to guess How prayer would feel - to me - If I believed God looked around, Each time my Childish eye Fixed full,...
I rose - because He sank - I thought it would be opposite - But when his power bent - My Soul grew straight. I cheered my fainting Prince - I sang firm - even - Chants - I helped his Film - with Hymn ...
I see thee better - in the Dark - I do not need a Light - The Love of Thee - a Prism be - Excelling Violet - I see thee better for the Years That pile themselves - between - The Miner's Lamp - suffici...
I shall not murmur if at last The ones I loved below Permission have to understand For what I shunned them so - Divulging it would rest my Heart But it would ravage their's - Why, Katie, Treason has a...
I should not dare to leave my friend, Because - because if he should die While I was gone - and I - too late - Should reach the Heart that wanted me - If I should disappoint the eyes That hunted - hun...
I taste a liquor never brewed - From Tankards scooped in Pearl - Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! Inebriate of air - am I - And Debauchee of Dew - Reeling - thro endless summer day...
I think just how my shape will rise - When I shall be "forgiven" - Till Hair - and Eyes - and timid Head - Are out of sight - in Heaven - I think just how my lips will weigh - With shapeless...
I thought the Train would never come - How slow the whistle sang - I dont believe a peevish Bird So whimpered for the Spring - I taught my Heart a hundred times Precisely what to say - Provoking Lover...
I'm ceded - I've stopped being Their's - The name They dropped upon my face With water, in the country church Is finished using, now, And They can put it with my Dolls, My childhood, and the string of...
I'm saying every day "If I should be a Queen, tomorrow" - I'd do this way - And so I deck, a little, If it be, I wake a Bourbon, None on me, bend supercilious - With "This was she - Beg...
I'm sorry for the Dead - Today - It's such congenial times Old neighbors have at fences - It's time o'year for Hay, And Broad - Sunburned Acquaintance Discourse between the Toil - And laugh, a homely ...
I've got an arrow here. Loving the hand that sent it I the dart revere. Fell, they will say, in "skirmish"! Vanquished, my soul will know By but a simple arrow Sped by an archer's bow.
I've none to tell me to but Thee So when Thou failest, nobody - It was a little tie - It just held Two, nor those it held Since Somewhere thy sweet Face has spilled Beyond my Boundary - If things were...
If all the griefs I am to have Would only come today, I am so happy I believe They'd laugh and run away. If all the joys I am to have Would only come today, They could not be so big as this That happe...
If any sink, assure that this, now standing - Failed like Themselves - and conscious that it rose - Grew by the Fact, and not the Understanding How Weakness passed - or Force - arose - Tell that the W...
If Anybody's friend be dead It's sharpest of the theme The thinking how they walked alive - At such and such a time - Their costume, of a Sunday, Some manner of the Hair - A prank nobody knew but them...
