The Manner of it's Death When Certain it must die - 'Tis deemed a privilege to choose - 'Twas Major Andre's Way - When Choice of Life - is past - There yet remains a Love It's little Fate to stipulate...
The Martyr Poets - did not tell - But wrought their Pang in syllable - That when their mortal name be numb - Their mortal fate - encourage Some - The Martyr Painters - never spoke - Bequeathing - rath...
The Mind lives on the Heart Like any Parasite - If that is full of Meat The Mind is fat - But if the Heart omit Emaciate the Wit - The Aliment of it So absolute.
The morns are meeker than they were - The nuts are getting brown - The berry's cheek is plumper - The Rose is out of town. The Maple wears a gayer scarf - The field a scarlet gown - Lest I should be o...
The only Ghost I ever saw Was dressed in Mechlin - so - He had no sandal on his foot - And stepped like flakes of snow - His Gait - was soundless, like a Bird - But rapid - like the Roe - His fashions...
The parasol is the umbrella's daughter, And associates with a fan While her father abuts the tempest And abridges the rain. The former assists a siren In her serene display; But her father is borne an...
The Poets light but Lamps - Themselves - go out - The Wicks they stimulate - If vital Light Inhere as do the Suns - Each Age a Lens Disseminating their Circumference.
The pretty Rain from those sweet Eaves Her unintending Eyes - Took her own Heart, including our's, By innocent Surprise - The wrestle in her simple throat To hold the feeling down That vanquished her ...
The Province of the Saved Should be the Art - To Save - Through Skill obtained in Themselves - The Science of the Grave No Man can understand But He that hath endured The Dissolution - in Himself - Th...
The pungent atom in the Air Admits of no debate - All that is named of Summer Days Relinquished our Estate - For what Department of Delight As positive are we As Limit of Dominion Or Dams - of Extasy.
The rainbow never tells me That gust and storm are by - Yet is she more convincing Than Philosophy. My flowers turn from Forums - Yet eloquent declare What Cato couldn't prove me Except the birds were...
The Red - Blaze - is the Morning - The Violet - is Noon - The Yellow - Day - is falling - And after that - is None - But Miles of Sparks - at Evening - Reveal the Width that burned - The Territory Arg...
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan; Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature will not tell the tale Jehovah told to her Can human nature not proceed Without a l...
The Road was lit with Moon and star - The Trees were bright and still - Descried I - by -the distant Light A traveller on a Hill - To magic Perpendiculars Ascending, though terrene - Unknown his shimm...
The Robin for the Crumb Returns no syllable But long records the Lady's name In Silver Chronicle.
The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, The maddest noise that grows, - The birds, they make it in the spring, At night's delicious close, Between the March and April line - That magical frontier Beyon...
The Spider holds a Silver Ball In unperceived Hands - And dancing softly as He knits His Coil of Pearl - unwinds - He plies from Nought to Nought - In unsubstantial Trade - Supplants our Tapestries wi...
The Spirit lasts - but in what mode - Below, the Body speaks, But as the Spirit furnishes - Apart, it never talks - The Music in the Violin Does not emerge alone But Arm in Arm with Touch, yet Touch A...
The Sun - just touched the Morning - The Morning - Happy thing - Supposed that He had come to dwell - And Life would all be Spring! She felt herself supreme - A Raised - Ethereal Thing! Henceforth - f...
The Sun and Fog contested The Government of Day - The Sun took down his Yellow Whip And drove the Fog away.
The Sun is gay or stark According to our Deed - If Merry, He is merrier - If eager for the Dead Or an expended Day He helped to make too bright His mighty pleasure suits Us not It magnifies our Freigh...
The Sun kept stooping - stooping - low! The Hills to meet him rose! On his side, what Transaction! On their side, what Repose! Deeper and deeper grew the stain Upon the window pane - Thicker and thick...
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...
The Test of Love - is Death - Our Lord - "so loved" - it saith - What Largest Lover - hath Another - doth - If smaller Patience - be - Through less Infinity - If Bravo, sometimes swerve - Th...
The Voice that stands for Floods to me Is sterile borne to some - The Face that makes the Morning mean Glows impotent on them - What difference in Substance lies That what is Sum to me By other Financ...
