Drab Habitation of Whom?
Tabernacle or Tomb -
Or Dome of Worm -
Or Porch of Gnome -
Or some Elf's Catacomb?
Sweet hours have perished here,
This is a mighty room -
Within it's precincts hopes have played
Now shadows in the tomb.
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 ...
Quando sento la parola "fuga"
il mio sangue scorre pi? veloce,
sorge in me improvvisa la speranza
e son pronta a volare.
Quando sento dire di prigioni
distrutte da soldati,
come un bambino s...
And we are waiting for the Coach -
It seems as though the Time -
Indignant - that the Joy was come -
Did block the Gilded Hands -
And would not let the Seconds by -
But slowest instant - ends -
The P...
God made no act without a cause -
nor heart without an aim -
Our inference is premature,
our premises to blame.
Had I known that the first was the last
I should have kept it longer.
Had I known that the last was the first
I should have mixed it stronger.
Cup, it was your fault,
Lip was not the liar.
No, lip it ...
A throe upon the features -
A hurry in the breath -
An ecstasy of parting
Denominated "Death" -
An anguish at the mention
Which when to patience grown -
I've known permission given
To rejoin...
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...
Some - Work for Immortality -
The Chiefer part, for Time -
He - Compensates - immediately -
The former - Checks - on Fame -
Slow Gold - but Everlasting -
The Bullion of Today -
Contrasted with the Cur...
'Tis Opposites - entice -
Deformed Men - ponder Grace -
Bright fires - the Blanketless -
The Lost - Day's face -
The Blind - esteem it be
Enough Estate - to see -
The Captive - strangles new -
For dee...
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'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 ...
The Clock strikes One
That just struck Two -
Some Schism in the Sum -
A Vagabond from Genesis
Has wrecked the Pendulum.
For every Bird a nest -
Wherefore in timid quest
Some little Wren goes seeking round -
Wherefore when boughs are free,
Households in every tree,
Pilgrim be found?
Perhaps a home too high -
Ah aristoc...
Climbing to reach the costly Hearts
To which he gave the worth,
He broke them, fearing punishment
He ran away from Earth.
The Body grows without -
The more convenient way -
That if the Spirit - like to hide
It's Temple stands, always,
Ajar - secure - inviting -
It never did betray
The Soul that asked it's shelter
In sole...
Could mortal Lip divine
The elemental Freight
Of a delivered Syllable
'Twould crumble with the weight -
The Prey of Unknown Zones -
The Pillage of the Sea
The Tabernacles of the Minds
That told the Tr...
Go not too near a House of Rose -
The depredation of a Breeze -
Or inundation of a Dew
Alarm it's Walls away -
Nor try to tie the Butterfly,
Nor climb the Bars of Ecstasy -
In insecurity to lie
Is Joy...
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...
Not that he goes - we love him more
who led us while he stayed.
Beyond Earth's trafficking frontier,
for what he moved, he made.
There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself -
Finite Infinity
Ha un...
A Mien to move a Queen -
Half Child - Half Heroine -
An Orleans in the Eye
That puts it's manner by
For humbler Company
When none are near
Even a Tear -
It's frequent Visitor -
A Bonnet like a Duke -
...
Rearrange a "Wife's" Affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!
Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness -
Blush, my unacknowledged clay -
Seve...
Garlands for Queens, may be -
Laurels - for rare degree
Of soul or sword -
Ah - but remembering me -
Ah - but remembering thee -
Nature in chivalry -
Nature in charity -
Nature in equity -
This Rose o...