My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – In Corners – till a Day The Owner passed – identified – And carried Me away – And now We roam…
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Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no…
A Bird, came down the Walk – He did not know I saw – He bit an Angle Worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then, he drank…
“Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all – And sweetest…
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading – treading – till it seemed That Sense was breaking through – And when they all…
Wild nights – Wild nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a Heart in port – Done with the Compass…
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell…
THE NIGHT was wide, and furnished scant With but a single star, That often as a cloud it met Blew out itself for fear. The wind pursued the little bush,…
HE touched me, so I live to know That such a day, permitted so, I groped upon his breast. It was a boundless place to me, And silenced, as the…
Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so? And nobody, knows, so still it…
That I did always love, I bring thee proof: That till I loved I did not love enough. That I shall love alway, I offer thee That love is life,…
I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too— And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from…
If you were coming in the fall, I ’d brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see…
Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With…
700 You’ve seen Balloons set-Haven’t You? So stately they ascend- It is as Swans-discarded You, For Duties Diamond- Their Liquid Feet go softly out Upon a Sea of Blonde- They…
234 You’re right-“the way is narrow”- And “difficult the Gate”- And “few there be”-Correct again- That “enter in-thereat”- ‘Tis Costly-So are purples! ‘Tis just the price of Breath- With but…
420 You’ll know it-as you know ’tis Noon- By Glory- As you do the Sun- By Glory- As you will in Heaven- Know God the Father-and the Son. By intuition,…
634 You’ll know Her – by Her Foot – The smallest Gamboge Hand With Fingers – where the Toes should be – Would more affront the Sand – Than this…
610 You’ll find-it when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know. And though their places somewhat filled- As…
740 You taught me Waiting with Myself- Appointment strictly kept- You taught me fortitude of Fate- This-also-I have learnt- An Altitude of Death, that could No bitterer debar Than Life-had…
You said that I “was Great”-one Day- Then “Great” it be-if that please Thee- Or Small-or any size at all- Nay-I’m the size suit Thee- Tall-like the Stag-would that? Or…
644 You left me-Sire-two Legacies- A Legacy of Love A Heavenly Father would suffice Had He the offer of- You left me Boundaries of Pain- Capacious as the Sea- Between…
To fight aloud, is very brave- But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe- Who win, and nations do not see- Who fall-and none observe-…
678 Wolfe demanded during dying “Which obtain the Day”? “General, the British”-“Easy” Answered Wolfe “to die” Montcalm, his opposing Spirit Rendered with a smile “Sweet” said he “my own Surrender…
655 Without this-there is nought- All other Riches be As is the Twitter of a Bird- Heard opposite the Sea- I could not care-to gain A lesser than the Whole-…
90 Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered thro’ the village- Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected Violets Within the meadows go-…
209 With thee, in the Desert— With thee in the thirst— With thee in the Tamarind wood— Leopard breathes—at last!
101 Will there really be a “Morning”? Is there such a thing as “Day”? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as they? Has it…
462 Why make it doubt-it hurts it so- So sick-to guess- So strong-to know- So brave-upon its little Bed To tell the very last They said Unto Itself-and smile-And shake-…
The Murmur of a Bee A Witchcraft-yieldeth me- If any ask me why- ‘Twere easier to die- Than tell- The Red upon the Hill Taketh away my will- If anybody…
82 Whose cheek is this? What rosy face Has lost a blush today? I found her-“pleiad”-in the woods And bore her safe away. Robins, in the tradition Did cover such…
142 Whose are the little beds, I asked Which in the valleys lie? Some shook their heads, and others smiled – And no one made reply. Perhaps they did not…
658 Whole Gulfs-of Red, and Fleets-of Red- And Crews-of solid Blood- Did place upon the West-Tonight- As ’twere specific Ground- And They-appointed Creatures- In Authorized Arrays- Due-promptly-as a Drama- That…
796 Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy- For Greatness, that is ill at ease In minor Company- A Smaller, could not be perturbed- The Summer Gnat…
803 Who Court obtain within Himself Sees every Man a King- And Poverty of Monarchy Is an interior thing- No Man depose Whom Fate Ordain- And Who can add a…
491 While it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood Under one Sacrament Show me Division can split or pare-…
331 While Asters- On the Hill- Their Everlasting fashions-set- And Covenant Gentians-Frill!
Where I have lost, I softer tread — I sow sweet flower from garden bed — I pause above that vanished head And mourn. Whom I have lost, I pious…
112 Where bells no more affright the morn- Where scrabble never comes- Where very nimble Gentlemen Are forced to keep their rooms- Where tired Children placid sleep Thro’ Centuries of…
242 When we stand on the tops of Things- And like the Trees, look down- The smoke all cleared away from it- And Mirrors on the scene- Just laying light-no…
222 When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side, When Katie runs unwearied they follow on the road, When Katie kneels, their loving hands still clasp her pious knee-…
40 When I count the seeds That are sown beneath, To bloom so, bye and bye- When I con the people Lain so low, To be received as high- When…
633 When Bells stop ringing-Church-begins The Positive-of Bells- When Cogs-stop-that’s Circumference- The Ultimate-of Wheels.
247 What would I give to see his face? I’d give-I’d give my life-of course- But that is not enough! Stop just a minute-let me think! I’d give my biggest…
401 What Soft-Cherubic Creatures- These Gentlewomen are- One would as soon assault a Plush- Or violate a Star- Such Dimity Convictions- A Horror so refined Of freckled Human Nature- Of…
186 What shall I do-it whimpers so- This little Hound within the Heart All day and night with bark and start- And yet, it will not go- Would you untie…
215 What is-“Paradise”- Who live there- Are they “Farmers”- Do they “hoe”- Do they know that this is “Amherst”- And that I-am coming-too- Do they wear “new shoes”-in “Eden”- Is…
115 What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar Traveller comes? Who is the Landlord? Where the maids? Behold, what curious rooms! No ruddy fires on the hearth- No…
277 What if I say I shall not wait! What if I burst the fleshly Gate- And pass escaped-to thee! What if I file this Mortal-off- See where it hurt…
939 What I see not, I better see- Through Faith-my Hazel Eye Has periods of shutting- But, No lid has Memory- For frequent, all my sense obscured I equally behold…
361 What I can do-I will- Though it be little as a Daffodil- That I cannot-must be Unknown to possibility-
900 What did They do since I saw Them? Were They industrious? So many questions to put Them Have I the eagerness That could I snatch Their Faces That could…
961 Wert Thou but ill-that I might show thee How long a Day I could endure Though thine attention stop not on me Nor the least signal, Me assure- Wert…
230 We-Bee and I-live by the quaffing- ‘Tisn’t all Hock-with us- Life has its Ale- But it’s many a lay of the Dim Burgundy- We chant-for cheer-when the Wines-fail- Do…
534 We see—Comparatively— The Thing so towering high We could not grasp its segment Unaided—Yesterday— This Morning’s finer Verdict— Makes scarcely worth the toil— A furrow—Our Cordillera— Our Apennine—a Knoll—…
We never know how high we are Till we are asked to rise And then if we are true to plan Our statures touch the skies- The Heroism we recite…
993 We miss Her, not because We see- The Absence of an Eye- Except its Mind accompany Abridge Society As slightly as the Routes of Stars- Ourselves-asleep below- We know…
958 We met as Sparks-Diverging Flints Sent various-scattered ways- We parted as the Central Flint Were cloven with an Adze- Subsisting on the Light We bore Before We felt the…
21 We lose-because we win- Gamblers-recollecting which Toss their dice again!
We like March, his shoes are purple, He is new and high; Makes he mud for dog and peddler, Makes he forest dry; Knows the adder’s tongue his…
We grow accustomed to the Dark — When light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Goodbye — A Moment — We uncertain…
196 We don’t cry-Tim and I, We are far too grand- But we bolt the door tight To prevent a friend- Then we hide our brave face Deep in our…
“Unto Me?” I do not know you- Where may be your House? “I am Jesus-Late of Judea- Now-of Paradise”- Wagons-have you-to convey me? This is far from Thence- “Arms of…
295 Unto like Story-Trouble has enticed me- How Kinsmen fell- Brothers and Sister-who preferred the Glory- And their young will Bent to the Scaffold, or in Dungeons-chanted- Till God’s full…
972 Unfulfilled to Observation- Incomplete-to Eye- But to Faith-a Revolution In Locality- Unto Us-the Suns extinguish- To our Opposite- New Horizons-they embellish- Fronting Us-with Night.
857 Uncertain lease-develops lustre On Time Uncertain Grasp, appreciation Of Sum- The shorter Fate-is oftener the chiefest Because Inheritors upon a tenure Prize-
107 ‘Twas such a little-little boat That toddled down the bay! ‘Twas such a gallant-gallant sea That beckoned it away! ‘Twas such a greedy, greedy wave That licked it from…
‘Twas Crisis-All the length had passed- That dull-benumbing time There is in Fever or Event- And now the Chance had come- The instant holding in its claw The privilege to…
767 To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone- When One has failed to stop them- Is Human-but Divine To lend an Ample Sinew Unto a Nameless Man- Whose…
To my quick ear the Leaves-conferred- The Bushes-they were Bells- I could not find a Privacy From Nature’s sentinels- In Cave if I presumed to hide The Walls-begun to tell-…
To lose thee, sweeter than to gain All other hearts I knew. ?Tis true the drought is destitute But, then, I had the dew! The Caspian has its realms of…
622 To know just how He suffered-would be dear- To know if any Human eyes were near To whom He could entrust His wavering gaze- Until it settle broad-on Paradise-…
591 To interrupt His Yellow Plan The Sun does not allow Caprices of the Atmosphere- And even when the Snow Heaves Balls of Specks, like Vicious Boy Directly in His…
526 To hear an Oriole sing May be a common thing- Or only a divine. It is not of the Bird Who sings the same, unheard, As unto Crowd- The…
105 To hang our head-ostensibly- And subsequent, to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal mind- Affords the sly presumption That in so dense a fuzz- You-too-take…
546 To fill a Gap Insert the Thing that caused it – Block it up With Other – and ’twill yawn the more – You cannot solder an Abyss With…
To die-takes just a little while- They say it doesn’t hurt- It’s only fainter-by degrees- And then-it’s out of sight- A darker Ribbon-for a Day- A Crape upon the Hat-…
792 Through the strait pass of suffering- The Martyrs-even-trod. Their feet-upon Temptations- Their faces-upon God- A stately-shriven-Company- Convulsion-playing round- Harmless-as streaks of Meteor- Upon a Planet’s Bond- Their faith-the everlasting…
9 Through lane it lay-through bramble- Through clearing and through wood- Banditti often passed us Upon the lonely road. The wolf came peering curious- The owl looked puzzled down- The…
979 This Merit hath the worst- It cannot be again- When Fate hath taunted last And thrown Her furthest Stone- The Maimed may pause, and breathe, And glance securely round-…
936 This Dust, and its Feature- Accredited-Today- Will in a second Future- Cease to identify- This Mind, and its measure- A too minute Area For its enlarged inspection’s Comparison-appear- This…
474 They put Us far apart- As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula- We signified “These see”- They took away our Eyes- They thwarted Us with Guns- “I see…
350 They leave us with the Infinite. But He-is not a man- His fingers are the size of fists- His fists, the size of men- And whom he foundeth, with…
“They have not chosen me,” he said, “But I have chosen them!” Brave-Broken hearted statement- Uttered in Bethlehem! I could not have told it, But since Jesus dared- Sovereign! Know…
785 They have a little Odor-that to me Is metre-nay-’tis melody- And spiciest at fading-indicate- A Habit-of a Laureate-
They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the lune A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless…
868 They ask but our Delight- The Darlings of the Soil And grant us all their Countenance For a penurious smile.
886 These tested Our Horizon- Then disappeared As Birds before achieving A Latitude. Our Retrospection of Them A fixed Delight, But our Anticipation A Dice-a Doubt-
551 There is a Shame of Nobleness- Confronting Sudden Pelf- A finer Shame of Ecstasy- Convicted of Itself- A best Disgrace-a Brave Man feels- Acknowledged-of the Brave- One More-“Ye Blessed”-to…
24 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…
930 There is a June when Corn is cut And Roses in the Seed- A Summer briefer than the first But tenderer indeed As should a Face supposed the Grave’s…
856 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…
332 There are two Ripenings-one-of sight- Whose forces Spheric wind Until the Velvet product Drop spicy to the ground- A homelier maturing- A process in the Bur- That teeth of…
689 The Zeroes-taught us-Phosphorous- We learned to like the Fire By playing Glaciers-when a Boy- And Tinder-guessed-by power Of Opposite-to balance Odd- If White-a Red-must be! Paralysis-our Primer-dumb- Unto Vitality!
His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill. He laboreth at every tree,— A worm his utmost goal.
762 The Whole of it came not at once- ‘Twas Murder by degrees- A Thrust-and then for Life a chance- The Bliss to cauterize- The Cat reprieves the Mouse She…
627 The Tint I cannot take-is best- The Color too remote That I could show it in Bazaar- A Guinea at a sight- The fine-impalpable Array- That swaggers on the…
The show is not the show, But they that go. Menagerie to me My neighbor be. Fair play— Both went to see.
285 The Robin’s my Criterion for Tune- Because I grow-where Robins do- But, were I Cuckoo born- I’d swear by him- The ode familiar-rules the Noon- The Buttercup’s, my Whim…
828 The Robin is the One That interrupt the Morn With hurried-few-express Reports When March is scarcely on- The Robin is the One That overflow the Noon With her cherubic…