To his simplicity To die - was little Fate - If Duty live - contented But her Confederate.
Delayed till she had ceased to know - Delayed till in it's vest of snow Her loving bosom lay - An hour behind the fleeting breath - Later by just an hour than Death - Oh lagging Yesterday! Could she h...
Summer - we all have seen - A few of us - believed - A few - the more aspiring Unquestionably loved - But Summer does not care - She takes her gracious way As eligible as the Moon To the Temerity - D...
Flowers - Well - if anybody Can the extasy define - Half a transport - half a trouble - With which flowers humble men: Anybody find the fountain From which floods so contra flow - I will give him all ...
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.
Ah, Moon - and Star! You are very far - But were no one Farther than you - Do you think I'd stop For a Firmament - Or a Cubit - or so? I could borrow a Bonnet Of the Lark - And a Chamois' Silver Boot ...
A Dew sufficed itself - And satisfied a Leaf And thought "How vast a Destiny"! "How trivial is Life!" The Sun went out to work - The Day went out to play - But not again that Dew b...
My life closed twice before it's close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, ...
She dealt her pretty words like Blades - How glittering they shone - And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone - She never deemed - she hurt - That - is not Steel's Affair - A vulgar grima...
It always felt to me - a wrong To that Old Moses - done - To let him see - the Canaan - Without the entering - And tho' in soberer moments - No Moses there can be I'm satisfied - the Romance In point ...
Myself was formed - a Carpenter - An unpretending time My Plane - and I, together wrought Before a Builder came - To measure our attainments - Had we the Art of Boards Sufficiently developed - He'd hi...
The sweetest Heresy received That Man and Woman know - Each Other's Convert - Though the Faith accommodate but Two - The Churches are so frequent - The Ritual - so small - The Grace so unavoidable - T...
Of Paul and Silas it is said There were in Prison laid But when they went to take them out They were not there instead. Security the same insures To our assaulted minds - The staple must be optional T...
Reverse cannot befall That fine Prosperity Whose Sources are interior - As soon - Adversity A Diamond - overtake In far - Bolivian Ground - Misfortune hath no implement Could mar it - if it found -.
It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down - It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon. It was not Frost, for on my Flesh I felt Siroccos - crawl - Nor Fire...
How Human Nature dotes On what it cant detect - The moment that a Plot is plumbed It's meaning is extinct - Prospective is the friend Reserved for us to know When Constancy is clarified Of Curiosity -...
He ate and drank the precious Words - His Spirit grew robust - He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was Dust - He danced along the dingy Days And this Bequest of Wings Was but a Book -...
Ribbons of the Year - Multitude Brocade - Worn to Nature's Party once Then, as flung aside As a faded Bead Or a Wrinkled Pearl - Who shall charge the Vanity Of the Maker's Girl?
Inconceivably solemn! Things so gay Pierce - by the very Press Of Imagery - Their far Parades - order on the eye With a mute Pomp - A pleading Pageantry - Flags, are a brave sight - But no true Eye E...
A Secret told - Ceases to be a Secret - then - A Secret - kept - That - can appal but One - Better of it - continual be afraid - Than it - And Whom you told it to - beside.
Il Mattino dopo il Dolore - ? spesso un Cammino - Che supera tutti quelli levatisi prima - Per Giubilo assoluto - Come se la Natura fosse indifferente - E accumulasse le sue Fioriture - E per ostentar...
Live with Him - I see His face - I go no more away For Visitor - or Sundown - Death's single privacy The Only One - forestalling Mine - And that - by Right that He Presents a Claim invisible - No wedl...
If What we Could - were what we would - Criterion - be small - It is the Ultimate of Talk - The Impotence to Tell.
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...
Had I presumed to hope - The loss had been to Me A Value - for the Greatness'Sake - As Giants - gone away - Had I presumed to gain A Favor so remote - The failure but confirm the Grace In further Infi...
