A door just opened on a street —
I, lost, was passing by —
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A drop fell on the apple tree
Another on the roof;
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A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
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A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
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Each life converges to some centre
Expressed or still;
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For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
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Good night! which put the candle out?
A jealous zephyr, not a doubt.
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I felt a cleaving in my mind
As if my brain had split;
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I know a place where summer strives
With such a practised frost,
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I measure every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
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I never hear the word "escape"
Without a quicker blood,
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I stepped from plank to plank
So slow and cautiously;
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I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
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Not in this world to see his face
Sounds long, until I read the place
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Of all the souls that stand create
I have elected one.
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The bustle in a house
The morning after death
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The only ghost I ever saw
Was dressed in mechlin, --so;
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There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
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They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
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The thought beneath so slight a film
Is more distincly seen, --
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Two butterflies went out at noon
And waltzed above a stream,
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes--
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs--
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Tie the strings to my life, my Lord,
Then I am
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It was not death, for I stood up,
And all the dead lie down.
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As imperceptibly as grief
The summer lapsed away, —
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Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
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Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
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A Route of Evanescence
With a revolving Wheel--
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I never saw a moor;
I never saw the sea,
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The spider holds a Silver Ball
In unperceived Hands--
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Apparently with no surprise,
To any happy flower,
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I cannot live with You --
It would be Life --
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The Grass so little has to do –
A Sphere of simple Green –
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Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discerning Eye —
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A Burdock — clawed my Gown —
Not Burdock's — blame —
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A Charm invests a face
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We grow accustomed to the Dark --
When light is put away --
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This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me --
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They shut me up in Prose --
As when a little Girl
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The Soul selects her own Society --
Then -- shuts the Door --
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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —
I keep it, staying at Home —
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Perhaps I asked too large --
I take -- no less than skies --
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"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see —
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Fame is a bee.
It has a song —
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Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
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Further in Summer than the Birds
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
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How happy is the little Stone
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I died for Beauty — but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
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I dwell in Possibility—
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
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I like a look of Agony,
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I like to see it lap the Miles—
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I never lost as much but twice,
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I reckon—when I count it all—
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I think the longest Hour of all
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I would not paint—a picture—
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In Winter in my Room
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Mine—by the Right of the White Election!
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My life closed twice before its close—
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My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—
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On a Columnar Self—
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Our lives are Swiss—
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Publication—is the Auction
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
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The Bible is an antique Volume—
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The Brain — is wider than the Sky —
For — put them side by side —
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The Brain, within its Groove
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The nearest Dream recedes—unrealized—
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Bee! I'm expecting you!
Was saying Yesterday
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Color — Caste — Denomination —
These — are Time's Affair —
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I reason, Earth is short—
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193
I shall know why—when Time is over—
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I was the slightest in the House—
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1100
The last Night that She lived
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A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!
Your prayers, oh Passer by!
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A sepal, petal, and a thorn
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30
Adrift! A little boat adrift!
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22
All these my banners be.
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Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine,
Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!
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Baffled for just a day or two —
Embarrassed — not afraid —
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Before the ice is in the pools —
Before the skaters go,
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By Chivalries as tiny,
A Blossom, or a Book,
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By such and such an offering
To Mr. So and So,
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Could live — did live —
Could die — did die —
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Distrustful of the Gentian —
And just to turn away,
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Frequently the wood are pink —
Frequently are brown.
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Garland for Queens, may be —
Laurels — for rare degree
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I had a guinea golden—
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I have a Bird in spring
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50
I haven't told my garden yet—
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46
I keep my pledge.
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I never told the buried gold
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51
I often passed the village
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I robbed the Woods—
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16
I would distil a cup,
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56
If I should cease to bring a Rose
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54
If I should die,
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33
If recollecting were forgetting,
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44
If she had been the Mistletoe
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29
If those I loved were lost
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39
It did not surprise me—
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It's all I have to bring today—
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Morns like these—we parted—
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My wheel is in the dark!
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Nobody knows this little Rose—
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4
On this wondrous sea
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Once more, my now bewildered Dove
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14
One Sister have I in our house,
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25
She slept beneath a tree—
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Sic transit gloria mundi,"
"How doth the busy bee,"
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Sleep is supposed to be
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36
Snow flakes.
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28
So has a Daisy vanished
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31
Summer for thee, grant I may be
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The feet of people walking home
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18
The Gentian weaves her fringes—
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15
The Guest is gold and crimson—
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The morns are meeker than they were—
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24
There is a morn by men unseen—
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8
There is a word
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There is another sky,
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There's something quieter than sleep
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9
Through lane it lay—through bramble—
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To venerate the simple days
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21
We lose—because we win—
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40
When I count the seeds
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32
When Roses cease to bloom, Sir,
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Whether my bark went down at sea—
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A darting fear—a pomp—a tear—
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A feather from the Whippoorwill
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A fuzzy fellow, without feet,
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A happy lip—breaks sudden—
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A House upon the Height—
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A Lady red—amid the Hill
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A little bread—a crust—a crumb—
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A Mien to move a Queen—
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A Murmur in the Trees—to note—
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A Night—there lay the Days between—
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A poor—torn heart—a tattered heart—
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A precious — mouldering pleasure — 'tis —
To meet an Antique Book —
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A science—so the Savants say,
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A Secret told—
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A slash of Blue—
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A solemn thing—it was—I said—
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A Solemn thing within the Soul
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A something in a summer's Day
As slow her flambeaux burn away
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A throe upon the features—
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A Tongue—to tell Him I am true!
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A Tooth upon Our Peace
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A transport one cannot contain
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A Visitor in Marl—
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A Weight with Needles on the pounds—
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A Wife—at daybreak I shall be—
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A Wounded Deer — leaps highest —
I've heard the Hunter tell —
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Ah, Moon—and Star!
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Ah, Necromancy Sweet!
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148
All overgrown by cunning moss,
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334
All the letters I can write
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298
Alone, I cannot be—
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366
Although I put away his life—
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Ambition cannot find him.
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An altered look about the hills—
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An awful Tempest mashed the air—
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Angels, in the early morning
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386
Answer July—
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110
Artists wrestled here!
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88
As by the dead we love to sit,
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133
As Children bid the Guest "Good Night"
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As far from pity, as complaint —
As cool to speech — as stone —
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As if I asked a common Alms,
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As if some little Arctic flower
Upon the polar hem —
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As Watchers hang upon the East,
As Beggars revel at a feast
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At last, to be identified!
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At least — to pray — is left — is left —
Oh Jesus — in the Air —
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Beauty — be not caused — It Is —
Chase it, and it ceases —
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Before I got my eye put out
I liked as well to see —
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Besides the Autumn poets sing
A few prosaic days
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Better — than Music! For I — who heard it —
I was used — to the Birds — before —
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Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple
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Bless God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast —
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Bound — a trouble —
And lives can bear it!
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Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up
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By a flower — By a letter —
By a nimble love —
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Civilization — spurns — the Leopard!
Was the Leopard — bold?
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Cocoon above! Cocoon below!
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Come slowly, Eden
Lips unused to thee.
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Could — I do more — for Thee —
Wert Thou a Bumble Bee —
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Could I — then — shut the door —
Lest my beseeching face — at last —
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Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
Then crouch within the door —
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Death sets a Thing significant
The Eye had hurried by
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Delayed till she had ceased to know —
Delayed till in its vest of snow
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Delight is as the flight —
Or in the Ratio of it,
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Did Our Best Moment last —
'Twould supersede the Heaven —
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Did the Harebell loose her girdle
To the lover Bee
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Did we disobey Him?
Just one time!
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Do People moulder equally,
They bury, in the Grave?
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