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...
The fairest Home I ever knew Was founded in an Hour By Parties also that I knew A spider and a Flower - A manse of mechlin and of Floss.
The farthest Thunder that I heard Was nearer than the Sky And rumbles still, though torrid Noons Have lain their Missiles by - The Lightning that preceded it Struck no one but myself - But I would not...
The feet of people walking home With gayer sandals go - The Crocus - till she rises The Vassal of the snow - The lips at Hallelujah Long years of practise bore Till bye and bye these Bargemen Walked s...
The Flake the Wind exasperate More eloquently lie Than if escorted to it's Down By Arm of Chivalry.
The Guest is gold and crimson - An Opal guest, and gray - Of Ermine is his doublet - His Capuchin gay - He reaches town at nightfall - He stops at every door - Who looks for him at morning I pray him ...
The healed Heart shows it's shallow scar With confidential moan - Not mended by Mortality Are Fabrics truly torn - To go it's convalescent way So shameless is to see More genuine were perfidy Than suc...
The Heart asks Pleasure - first - And then - Excuse from Pain - And then - those little Anodyness That deaden suffering - And then - to go to sleep - And then - if it should be The will of it's Inquis...
The joy that has no stem nor core, Nor seed that we can sow, Is edible to longing, But ablative to show. By fundamental palates Those products are preferred Impregnable to transit And patented by pod.
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 ...
The Lassitudes of Contemplation Beget a force - They are the spirit's still vacation That him refresh - The Dreams consolidate in action - What mettle fair.
The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity. But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Re...
The Lightning is a yellow Fork From Tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropt The awful Cutlery Of mansions never quite disclosed And never quite concealed The Apparatus of the Dark To ignorance ...
The long sigh of the Frog Upon a Summer's Day Enacts intoxication Upon the Passer by. But his receding Swell Substantiates a Peace That makes the Ear inordinate For corporal release.
The Malay - took the Pearl - Not - I - the Earl - I - feared the Sea - too much Unsanctified - to touch - Praying that I might be Worthy - the Destiny - The Swarthy fellow swam - And bore my Jewel - H...
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.