I am alive - I guess - The Branches on my Hand Are full of Morning Glory - And at my finger's end - The Carmine - tingles warm - And if I hold a Glass Across my Mouth - it blurs it - Physician's - pro...
I asked no other thing - No other - was denied - I offered Being - for it - The Mighty Merchant sneered - Brazil? He twirled a Button - Without a glance my way - "But - Madam - is there nothing e...
I bring an unaccustomed wine To lips long parching Next to mine, And summon them to drink; Crackling with fever, they essay, I turn my brimming eyes away, And come next hour to look. The hands still ...
I Came to buy a smile - today - But just a single smile - The smallest one upon your face Will suit me just as well - The one that no one else would miss It shone so very small - I'm pleading at the &...
I can wade Grief - Whole Pools of it - I'm used to that - But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet - And I tip - drunken - Let no Pebble - smile - 'Twas the New Liquor - That was all! Power is only...
I could not prove the Years had feet - Yet confident they run Am I, from symptoms that are past And Series that are done - I find my feet have further Goals - I smile upon the Aims That felt so ample ...
I cross till I am weary A Mountain - in my mind - More Mountains - then a Sea - More Seas - And then A Desert - find - And My Horizon blocks With sudden - blinding - Grains Of unconjectured quantity -...
I envy Seas, whereon He rides - I envy Spokes of Wheels Of Chariots, that Him convey - I envy Crooked Hills That gaze upon His journey - How easy all can see What is forbidden utterly As Eden - unto m...
I cried at Pity - not at Pain - I heard a Woman say "Poor Child" - and something in her voice Convinced me - of me - So long I fainted, to myself It seemed the common way, And Health, and La...
I fear a Man of frugal Speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary...
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through - And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum - Kept beating ...
I gained it so - By Climbing slow - By Catching at the Twigs that grow Between the Bliss - and me - It hung so high As well the Sky Attempt by Strategy - I said I gained it - This - was all - Look, ho...
I gave myself to Him - And took Himself, for Pay, The Solemn Contract of a Life Was ratified, this way - The Wealth might disappoint - Myself a poorer prove Than this great Purchaser suspect, The Dail...
I groped for him before I knew With solemn nameless need All other bounty sudden chaff For this foreshadowed Food Which others taste and spurn and sneer - Though I within suppose That consecrated it c...
I had a guinea golden - I lost it in the sand - And th? the sum was simple And pounds were in the land - Still, had it such a value Unto my frugal eye - That when I could not find it - I sat me down t...
I had been hungry, all the Years - My Noon had Come - to dine - I trembling drew the Table near - And touched the Curious Wine - 'Twas this on Tables I had seen - When turning, hungry, Home I looked i...
I had no Cause to be awake - My Best - was gone to sleep - And Morn a new politeness took - And failed to wake them up - But called the others - clear - And passed their Curtains by - Sweet Morning - ...
I had no time to Hate - Because The Grave would hinder Me - And Life was not so Ample I Could finish - Enmity - Nor had I time to Love - But since Some Industry must be - The little Toil of Love - I t...
I had not minded - Walls - Were Universe - one Rock - And far I heard his silver Call The other side the Block - I'd tunnel - till my Groove Pushed sudden thro' to his - Then my face take her Recompen...
I had some things that I called mine - And God, that he called his - Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities. The property, my garden, Which having sown with care, He claims the pretty ac...
I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the Rose appears, Robin is gone. Yet do I not repine Knowing that Bird of mine Though flown - ...
I have no Life but this - To lead it here - Nor any Death - but lest Dispelled from there - Nor tie to Earths to come - Nor Action new - Except through this Extent - The Realm of you.
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air - Between the Heaves of Storm - The Eyes around - had wrung them dry - And Breaths were gathering firm Fo...
I know some lonely Houses off the Road A Robber'd like the look of - Wooden barred, And Windows hanging low, Inviting to - A Portico, Where two could creep - One - hand the Tools - The other peep - To...
I like to see it lap the Miles - And lick the Valleys up - And stop to feed itself at Tanks - And then - prodigious step Around a Pile of Mountains - And supercilious peer In Shanties - by the sides o...
