With thee, in the Desert -
With thee in the thirst -
With thee in the Tamarind wood -
Leopard breathes - at last!
Is it true, dear Sue?
Are there two?
I should'nt like to come
For fear of joggling Him!
If you could shut him up
In a Coffee Cup,
Or tie him to a pin
Till I got in -
Or make him fast
To "Toby's&q...
To interrupt His Yellow Plan
The Sun does not allow
Caprices of the Atmosphere -
And even when the Snow
Heaves Balls of Specks, like Vicious Boy
Directly in His Eye -
Does not so much as turn His Head...
The Bat is dun, with wrinkled Wings -
Like fallow Article -
And not a song pervade his Lips -
Or none perceptible.
His small Umbrella quaintly halved
Describing in the Air
An Arc alike inscrutable
Ela...
Absence disembodies - so does Death
Hiding individuals from the Earth
Superstition helps, as well as love -
Tenderness decreases as we prove.
C'? una parola
Che regge una spada
Pu? trafiggere un uomo armato -
Scaglia le sue acuminate sillabe
Ed ? muta di nuovo -
Ma dove ? caduta
Gli scampati diranno
Nel patriottico giorno,
Che qualche decor...
La fede ? il ponte senza pilastri che porta ci? che vediamo verso la scena invisibile, troppo tenue per l'occhio.
Those - dying then,
Knew where they went -
They went to God's Right Hand -
That Hand is amputated now
And God cannot be found -
The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small -
Better an ignis fatu...
Io so bene che dentro la mia stanza
c'? un amico invisibile,
non si rivela con qualche movimento
n? parla per darmi una conferma.
Non c'? bisogno che io gli trovi posto:
? una cortesia pi? conveniente...
Some Days retired from the rest
In soft distinction lie
The Day that a Companion came
Or was obliged to die.
Love's stricken "why"
Is all that love can speak -
Built of but just a syllable,
The hugest hearts that break.
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...
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 Fact that Earth is Heaven -
Whether Heaven is Heaven or not
If not an Affidavit
Of that specific Spot
Not only must confirm us
That it is not for us
But that it would affront us
To dwell in such a...
When I have seen the Sun emerge
From His amazing House -
And leave a Day at every Door
A Deed, in every place -
Without the incident of Fame
Or accident of Noise -
The Earth has seemed to me a Drum,
P...
Your Riches - taught me - Poverty.
Myself - a Millionaire
In little Wealths, as Girls could boast -
Till broad as Buenos Ayre -
You drifted your Dominions -
A Different Peru -
And I esteemed All Pover...
There is another sky,
ever serene and fair,
and there is another sunshine,
th? it be darkness there.
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
never mind silent fields.
Here is a little forest
whose leaf is e...
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...
To put this World down, like a Bundle -
And walk steady, away,
Requires Energy - possibly Agony -
'Tis the Scarlet way
Trodden with straight renunciation
By the Son of God -
Later, his faint Confedera...
He put the Belt around my life -
I heard the Buckle snap -
And turned away, imperial,
My Lifetime folding up -
Deliberate, as a Duke would do
A Kingdom's Title Deed -
Henceforth, a Dedicated sort -
A ...
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
Sweet - safe - Houses -
Glad - gay - Houses -
Sealed so stately tight -
Lids of Steel - on Lids of Marble -
Locking Barefeet out -
Brooks of Plush - in Banks of Satin
Not so softly fall
As the laughte...
It was too late for Man -
But early, yet, for God -
Creation - impotent to help -
But Prayer - remained - Our Side -
How excellent the Heaven -
When Earth - cannot be had -
How hospitable - then - the...
To her derided Home
A Weed of Summer came -
She did not know her station low
Nor Ignominy's name -
Bestowed a summer long
Upon a frameless flower -
Then swept as lightly from disdain
As Lady from her ...
There is a Languor of the Life
More imminent than Pain -
'Tis Pain's Successor - When the Soul
Has suffered all it can -
A Drowsiness - diffuses -
A Dimness like a Fog
Envelops Consciousness -
As Mist...