The rainbow never tells me That gust and storm are by - Yet is she more convincing Than Philosophy. My flowers turn from Forums - Yet eloquent declare What Cato couldn't prove me Except the birds were...
The Red - Blaze - is the Morning - The Violet - is Noon - The Yellow - Day - is falling - And after that - is None - But Miles of Sparks - at Evening - Reveal the Width that burned - The Territory Arg...
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...
The Road was lit with Moon and star - The Trees were bright and still - Descried I - by -the distant Light A traveller on a Hill - To magic Perpendiculars Ascending, though terrene - Unknown his shimm...
The Robin for the Crumb Returns no syllable But long records the Lady's name In Silver Chronicle.
The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, The maddest noise that grows, - The birds, they make it in the spring, At night's delicious close, Between the March and April line - That magical frontier Beyon...
The Spider holds a Silver Ball In unperceived Hands - And dancing softly as He knits His Coil of Pearl - unwinds - He plies from Nought to Nought - In unsubstantial Trade - Supplants our Tapestries wi...
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 Sun - just touched the Morning - The Morning - Happy thing - Supposed that He had come to dwell - And Life would all be Spring! She felt herself supreme - A Raised - Ethereal Thing! Henceforth - f...
The Sun and Fog contested The Government of Day - The Sun took down his Yellow Whip And drove the Fog away.
The Sun is gay or stark According to our Deed - If Merry, He is merrier - If eager for the Dead Or an expended Day He helped to make too bright His mighty pleasure suits Us not It magnifies our Freigh...
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...
The sweetest Heresy received That Man and Woman know - Each Other's Convert - Though the Faith accommodate but Two - The Churches are so frequent - The Ritual - so small - The Grace so unavoidable - T...
The Test of Love - is Death - Our Lord - "so loved" - it saith - What Largest Lover - hath Another - doth - If smaller Patience - be - Through less Infinity - If Bravo, sometimes swerve - Th...
The Voice that stands for Floods to me Is sterile borne to some - The Face that makes the Morning mean Glows impotent on them - What difference in Substance lies That what is Sum to me By other Financ...
The Winters are so short - I'm hardly justified In sending all the Birds away - And moving into Pod - Myself - for scarcely settled - The Phebes have begun - And then - it's time to strike my Tent - A...
The World - stands - solemner - to me - Since I was wed - to Him - A modesty - befits the soul That bears another's - name - A doubt - if it be fair - indeed - To wear that perfect - pearl - The Man -...
There came a Wind like a Bugle - It quivered through the Grass And a Green Chill upon the Heat So ominous did pass We barred the Windows and the Doors As from an Emerald Ghost - The Doom's electric Mo...
There comes an hour when begging stops, When the long interceding lips Perceive their prayer is vain. "Thou shalt not" is a kinder sword Than from a disappointing God "Disciple, call ag...
There is a finished feeling Experienced at Graves - A leisure of the Future - A Wilderness of Size. By Death's bold Exhibition Preciser what we are And the Eternal function Enabled to infer.
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...
There is a pain - so utter - It swallows Being up - Then covers the Abyss with Trance - So Memory can step Around - across - upon it - As One within a Swoon - Goes safely - where an open eye - Would d...
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...
There is a morn by men unseen - Whose maids upon remoter green Keep their seraphic May - And all day long, with dance and game, And gambol I may never name - Employ their holiday. Here to light measur...
There is a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man - It hurls it's barbed syllables And is mute again - But where it fell The saved will tell On patriotic day, Some epauletted Brother Gave hi...
