My Maker - let me be Enamored most of thee - But nearer this I more should miss.
Never hear the word "Escape" Without a quicker blood! A sudden expectation! A flying attitude! I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down - But I tug, childish, at my bars Only ...
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 measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes - I wonder if It weighs like Mine - Or has an Easier size - I wonder if They bore it long - Or did it just begin - I could not tell the Date of ...
It would have starved a Gnat - To live so small as I - And yet, I was a living child - With Food's necessity Upon me - like a Claw - I could no more remove Than I could modify a Leech - Or make a Drag...
Annoda i Lacci alla mia Vita, Signore, Poi, sar? pronta ad andare! Solo un'occhiata ai Cavalli - In fretta! Potr? bastare! Mettimi dal lato pi? sicuro - Cos? non cadr? - Visto che dobbiamo cavalcare v...
We outgrow love, like other things And put it in the Drawer - Till it an Antique fashion shows - Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
I taste a liquor never brewed - From Tankards scooped in Pearl - Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! Inebriate of air - am I - And Debauchee of Dew - Reeling - thro endless summer day...
No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate it's wings, Nor any leader's grim baton Arraigns it as it sings. The implements of bliss are few - As Jesus says of Him, "Come unto me" the moie...
A Field of Stubble, lying sere Beneath the second Sun - It's Toils to Brindled People thrust - It's Triumphs - to the Bin - Accosted by a timid Bird Irresolute of Alms - Is often seen - but seldom fel...
Crisis is a Hair Toward which forces creep Past which - forces retrograde If it come in sleep To suspend the Breath Is the most we can Ignorant is it Life or Death Nicely balancing - Let an instant p...
? facile andare avanti quando l'anima gioca, ma quando l'anima ? in pena il sentirla riporre i suoi giocattoli rende ardua la vita allora.
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.
The Doomed - regard the Sunrise With different Delight - Because - when next it burns abroad They doubt to witness it - The Man - to die - tomorrow - Harks for the Meadow Bird - Because it's Music sti...
It's all I have to bring today - This, and my heart beside - This, and my heart, and all the fields - And all the meadows wide - Be sure you count - sh'd I forget Some one the sum could tell - This, a...
If this is "fading" Oh let me immediately "fade"! If this is "dying" Bury me, in such a shroud of red! If this is "sleep", On such a night How proud to shut the...
These are the days when Birds come back - A very few - a Bird or two - To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resume The old - old sophistries of June - A blue and gold mistake. Oh fr...
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...
Le cortesie pi? piccole - un fiore o un libro - piantano sorrisi come semi che germogliano nel buio.
Mio - per diritto della bianca elezione! Mio - per sigillo regale! Mio - per segno della bianca prigione che sbarre non possono celare! Mio - qui - nella visione e nel divieto! Mio - per l'abrograzion...
The Lamp burns sure - within - Tho' Serfs - supply the Oil - It matters not the busy Wick - At her phosphoric toil! The Slave - forgets - to fill - The Lamp - burns golden - on - Unconscious that the ...
To see her is a picture To hear her is a Tune To know her an intemperance As innocent as June By which to be undone Is dearer than Redemption - Which never to receive Makes mockery of melody It might ...
L'amore ? vita e la vita ha qualcosa di immortale.
Lad of Athens, faithful be To thyself, And Mystery - All the rest is Perjury.
My first well Day - since many ill - I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands And see the things in Pod - A'blossom just - when I went in To take my Chance with pain - Uncertain if myse...