At leisure is the Soul
That gets a Staggering Blow -
The Width of Life - before it spreads
Without a thing to do -
It begs you give it Work -
But just the placing Pins -
Or humblest Patchwork - Childr...
Except to Heaven, she is nought.
Except for Angels - lone.
Except to some wide-wandering Bee
A flower superfluous blown.
Except for winds - provincial.
Except by Butterflies
Unnoticed as a single dew
...
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...
A prompt - executive Bird is the Jay -
Bold as a Bailiff's Hymn -
Brittle and Brief in quality -
Warrant in every Line -
Sitting a Bough like a Brigadier
Confident and straight -
Much is the mien of h...
A Wife - at Daybreak - I shall be -
Sunrise - Hast Thou a Flag for me?
At Midnight - I am yet a Maid -
How short it takes to make it Bride -
Then - Midnight - I have passed from Thee -
Unto the East -...
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.
Only God - detect the Sorrow -
Only God -
The Jehovahs - are no Babblers -
Unto God -
God the Son - disclose it -
Still secure -
God the Spirit's Honor -
Just as sure.
Expectation - is Contentment -
Gain - Satiety -
But Satiety - Conviction
Of Nescessity
Of an Austere trait in Pleasure -
Good, without alarm
Is a too established Fortune -
Danger - deepens Sum.
To be forgot by thee
Surpasses Memory
Of other minds
The Heart cannot forget
Unless it contemplate
What it declines
I was regarded then
Raised from oblivion
A single time
To be remembered what -
Worth...
In rags mysterious as these
The shining Courtiers go,
Vailing the purple, and the plumes -
Vailing the ermine so.
Smiling, as they request an alms
At some imposing door -
Smiling when we walk barefoot...
This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life
I mention it to you,
When Sunrise through a fissure drop
The Day must follow too.
If we demur, it's gaping sides
Disclose as 'twere a Tomb
Ourself am lying straight whe...
Beauty - be not caused - It Is -
Chase it, and it ceases -
Chase it not, and it abides -
Overtake the Creases
In the Meadow - when the Wind
Runs his fingers thro' it -
Deity will see to it
That You n...
So bashful when I spied her!
So pretty - so ashamed!
So hidden in her leaflets
Lest anybody find -
So breathless till I passed her -
So helpless when I turned
And bore her struggling, blushing,
Her si...
She sweeps with many-colored Brooms -
And leaves the Shreds behind -
Oh Housewife in the Evening West -
Come back, and dust the Pond!
You dropped a Purple Ravelling in -
You dropped an Amber Thread -
...
Lasciarsi ? tutto quello che sappiamo del paradiso, e tutto quello che ci serve dell'inferno.
His Mind like Fabrics of the East -
Displayed to the despair
Of everyone but here and there
An humble Purchaser -
For though his price was not of Gold -
More arduous there is -
That one should compreh...
We shun it ere it comes,
Afraid of Joy,
Then sue it to delay
And lest it fly,
Beguile it more and more,
May not this be
Old Suitor Heaven,
Like our dismay at thee?
If all the griefs I am to have
Would only come today,
I am so happy I believe
They'd laugh and run away.
If all the joys I am to have
Would only come today,
They could not be so big as this
That happe...
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike,
But this slew all but him,
Who so appareled his Escape,
Too trackless for a Tomb.
Besides the Autumn poets sing
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the Haze -
A few incisive mornings -
A few Ascetic eves -
Gone - Mr Bryant's "Golden Rod" -
A...
A soft Sea washed around the House
A Sea of Summer Air
And rose and fell the magic Planks
That sailed without a care -
For Captain was the Butterfly
For Helmsman was the Bee
And an entire universe
For...
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...
Il soffrire ? umano non ? elegante.
If I'm lost - now -
That I was found -
Shall still my transport be -
That once - on me - those Jasper Gates
Blazed open - suddenly -
That in my awkward - gazing - face -
The Angels - softly peered -
A...
Crisis is sweet and yet the Heart
Upon the hither side
Has Dowers of Prospective
Surrendered by the Tried -
Inquire of the proudest Rose
Which rapture - she preferred
And she will tell you sighing -
T...