37 Before the ice is in the pools – Before the skaters go, Or any check at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow – Before the fields have finished, Before…
1035 Bee! I’m expecting you! Was saying Yesterday To Somebody you know That you were due – The Frogs got Home last Week – Are settled, and at work –…
The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A…
869 Because the Bee may blameless hum For Thee a Bee do I become List even unto Me. Because the Flowers unafraid May lift a look on thine, a Maid…
Because He loves Her We will pry and see if she is fair What difference is on her Face From Features others wear. It will not harm her magic pace…
845 Be Mine the Doom — Sufficient Fame — To perish in Her Hand!
854 Banish Air from Air – Divide Light if you dare – They’ll meet While Cubes in a Drop Or Pellets of Shape Fit Films cannot annul Odors return whole…
174 At last, to be identified! At last, the lamps upon thy side The rest of Life to see! Past Midnight! Past the Morning Star! Past Sunrise! Ah, What leagues…
121 As Watchers hang upon the East, As Beggars revel at a feast By savory Fancy spread – As brooks in deserts babble sweet On ear too far for the…
323 As if I asked a common Alms, And in my wondering hand A Stranger pressed a Kingdom, And I, bewildered, stand – As if I asked the Orient Had…
951 As Frost is best conceived By force of its Result – Affliction is inferred By subsequent effect – If when the sun reveal, The Garden keep the Gash –…
“Arcturus” is his other name – I’d rather call him “Star.” It’s very mean of Science To go and interfere! I slew a worm the other day – A “Savant”…
Apparently with no surprise, To any happy flower, The frost beheads it at its play, In accidental power. …
852 Apology for Her Be rendered by the Bee – Herself, without a Parliament Apology for Me.
386 Answer July – Where is the Bee – Where is the Blush – Where is the Hay? Ah, said July – Where is the Seed – Where is the…
198 An awful Tempest mashed the air – The clouds were gaunt, and few – A Black – as of a Spectre’s Cloak Hid Heaven and Earth from view. The…
An altered look about the hills – A Tyrian light the village fills – A wider sunrise in the morn – A deeper twilight on the lawn – A print…
Ample make this Bed – Make this Bed with Awe – In it wait till Judgment break Excellent and Fair. Be its Mattress straight – Be its Pillow round –…
68 Ambition cannot find him. Affection doesn’t know How many leagues of nowhere Lie between them now. Yesterday, undistinguished! Eminent Today For our mutual hone, Immortality!
839 Always Mine! No more Vacation! Term of Light this Day begun! Failless as the fair rotation Of the Seasons and the Sun. Old the Grace, but new the Subjects…
729 Alter! When the Hills do – Falter! When the Sun Question if His Glory Be the Perfect One – Surfeit! When the Daffodil Doth of the Dew – Even…
22 All these my banners be. I sow my pageantry In May – It rises train by train – Then sleeps in state again – My chancel – all the…
148 All overgrown by cunning moss, All interspersed with weed, The little cage of “Currer Bell” In quiet “Haworth” laid. Gathered from many wanderings – Gethsemane can tell Thro’ what…
819 All I may, if small, Do it not display Larger for the Totalness – ‘Tis Economy To bestow a World And withhold a Star – Utmost, is Munificence –…
966 All forgot for recollecting Just a paltry One – All forsook, for just a Stranger’s New Accompanying – Grace of Wealth, and Grace of Station Less accounted than An…
820 All Circumstances are the Frame In which His Face is set – All Latitudes exist for His Sufficient Continent – The Light His Action, and the Dark The Leisure…
666 Ah, Teneriffe! Retreating Mountain! Purples of Ages – pause for you – Sunset – reviews her Sapphire Regiment – Day – drops you her Red Adieu! Still – Clad…
608 Afraid! Of whom am I afraid? Not Death – for who is He? The Porter of my Father’s Lodge As much abasheth me! Of Life? ‘Twere odd I fear…
30 Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town? So Sailors say – on yesterday – Just…
Abraham to kill him Was distinctly told – Isaac was an Urchin – Abraham was old – Not a hesitation – Abraham complied – Flattered by Obeisance Tyranny demurred –…
165 A Wounded Deer – leaps highest – I’ve heard the Hunter tell – ‘Tis but the Ecstasy of death – And then the Brake is still! The Smitten Rock…
A Wife — at daybreak I shall be — Sunrise — Hast thou a Flag for me? At Midnight, I am but a Maid, How short it takes to make…
264 A Weight with Needles on the pounds – To push, and pierce, besides – That if the Flesh resist the Heft – The puncture – coolly tries – That…
391 A Visitor in Marl – Who influences Flowers – Till they are orderly as Busts – And Elegant – as Glass – Who visits in the Night – And…
184 A transport one cannot contain May yet a transport be – Though God forbid it lift the lid – Unto its Ecstasy! A Diagram – of Rapture! A sixpence…
400 A Tongue – to tell Him I am true! Its fee – to be of Gold – Had Nature – in Her monstrous House A single Ragged Child –…
71 A throe upon the features – A hurry in the breath – An ecstasy of parting Denominated “Death” – An anguish at the mention Which when to patience grown,…
271 A solemn thing – it was – I said – A woman – white – to be – And wear – if God should count me fit – Her…
204 A slash of Blue – A sweep of Gray – Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky – A little purple – slipped between – Some…
263 Is all that pins the Soul That stands for Deity, to Mine, Upon my side the Veil – Once witnessed of the Gauze – Its name is put away…
882 A Shade upon the mind there passes As when on Noon A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses Remembering That some there be too numb to notice Oh God Why…
19 A sepal, petal, and a thorn Upon a common summer’s morn – A flask of Dew – A Bee or two – A Breeze – a caper in the…
A Route of Evanescence With a revolving Wheel – A Resonance of Emerald – A Rush of Cochineal – And every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts its tumbled Head –…
A Prison gets to be a friend — Between its Ponderous face And Ours — a Kinsmanship express — And in its narrow Eyes — We come to look with…
A precious – mouldering pleasure – ’tis – To meet an Antique Book – In just the Dress his Century wore – A privilege – I think – His venerable…
963 A nearness to Tremendousness – An Agony procures – Affliction ranges Boundlessness – Vicinity to Laws Contentment’s quiet Suburb – Affliction cannot stay In Acres – Its Location Is…
A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him,—did you not, His notice sudden is. The grass divides as with a comb, A spotted shaft is…
841 A Moth the hue of this Haunts Candles in Brazil. Nature’s Experience would make Our Reddest Second pale. Nature is fond, I sometimes think, Of Trinkets, as a Girl.
283 A Mien to move a Queen – Half Child – Half Heroine – An Orleans in the Eye That puts its manner by For humbler Company When none are…
A Man may make a Remark – In itself – a quiet thing That may furnish the Fuse unto a Spark In dormant nature – lain – Let us deport…
959 A loss of something ever felt I – The first that I could recollect Bereft I was – of what I knew not Too young that any should suspect…
A little east of Jordan, Evangelists record, A gymnast and an angel Did wrestle long and hard, Till morning touching mountain — And Jacob, waxing…
A little Dog that wags his tail And knows no other joy Of such a little Dog am I Reminded by a Boy Who gambols all the living Day Without…
159 A little bread – a crust – a crumb – A little trust – a demijohn – Can keep the soul alive – Not portly, mind! but breathing –…
173 A fuzzy fellow, without feet, Yet doth exceeding run! Of velvet, is his Countenance, And his Complexion, dun! Sometime, he dwelleth in the grass! Sometime, upon a bough, From…
702 A first Mute Coming – In the Stranger’s House – A first fair Going – When the Bells rejoice – A first Exchange – of What hath mingled –…
859 A doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find. An Unreality is lent, A merciful Mirage That makes the living…
943 A Coffin – is a small Domain, Yet able to contain A Citizen of Paradise In it diminished Plane. A Grave – is a restricted Breadth – Yet ampler…
A clock stopped — not the mantel’s Geneva’s farthest skill Can’t put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came on the trinket! The…
421 A Charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld- The Lady date not lift her Veil For fear it be dispelled- But peers beyond her mesh- And wishes-and denies- Lest Interview-annul…
229 A Burdock – clawed my Gown – Not Burdock’s – blame – But mine – Who went too near The Burdock’s Den – A Bog – affronts my shoe…
519 ‘Twas warm – at first – like Us – Until there crept upon A Chill – like frost upon a Glass – Till all the scene – be gone.…
‘Twas Love — not me — Oh punish — pray — The Real one died for Thee — Just Him — not me — Such Guilt — to love Thee…
414 ‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch, That nearer, every Day, Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel Until the Agony Toyed coolly with the final inch Of your delirious Hem-…
973 ‘Twas awkward, but it fitted me – An Ancient fashioned Heart – Its only lore – its Steadfastness – In Change – unerudite – It only moved as do…
538 ‘Tis true – They shut me in the Cold – But then – Themselves were warm And could not know the feeling ’twas – Forget it – Lord –…
‘Tis so appalling – it exhilarates – So over Horror, it half Captivates – The Soul stares after it, secure – A Sepulchre, fears frost, no more – To scan…
‘Tis Opposites – entice – Deformed Men – ponder Grace – Bright fires-the Blanketless – The Lost – Day’s face – The Blind – esteem it be Enough Estate –…
‘Tis One by One — the Father counts — And then a Tract between Set Cypherless — to teach the Eye The Value of its Ten — Until the peevish…
335 ‘Tis not that Dying hurts us so – ‘Tis Living – hurts us more – But Dying – is a different way – A Kind behind the Door –…
440 ‘Tis customary as we part A trinket – to confer – It helps to stimulate the faith When Lovers be afar – ‘Tis various – as the various taste…
‘Tis Anguish grander than Delight ‘Tis Resurrection Pain – The meeting Bands of smitten Face We questioned to, again. ‘Tis Transport wild as thrills the Graves When Cerements let go…
“Why do I love” You, Sir? Because — The Wind does not require the Grass To answer — Wherefore when He pass She cannot keep Her place. Because He knows…