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One need not be a chamber to be ha… One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Far safer, of a midnight meeting
The nearest dream recedes, unreali… The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school-boy Invites the race;
462 Why make it doubt — it hurts it so… So sick — to guess — So strong — to know — So brave — upon its little Bed
839 Always Mine! No more Vacation! Term of Light this Day begun! Failless as the fair rotation
97 The rainbow never tells me That gust and storm are by, Yet is she more convincing Than Philosophy.
349 I had the Glory—that will do— An Honor, Thought can turn her to When lesser Fames invite— With one long “Nay”—
346 Not probable—The barest Chance— A smile too few—a word too much And far from Heaven as the Rest— The Soul so close on Paradise—
768 When I hoped, I recollect Just the place I stood— At a Window facing West— Roughest Air—was good—
I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry…
169 In Ebon Box, when years have flow… To reverently peer, Wiping away the velvet dust Summers have sprinkled there!
His voice decrepit was with Joy - Her words did totter so How old the News of Love must be To make Lips elderly That purled a moment since with G…
100 A science—so the Savants say, “Comparative Anatomy”— By which a single bone— Is made a secret to unfold
785 They have a little Odor—that to m… Is metre—nay—’tis melody— And spiciest at fading—indicate— A Habit—of a Laureate—
294 The Doomed—regard the Sunrise With different Delight— Because—when next it burns abroad They doubt to witness it—
481 The Himmaleh was known to stoop Unto the Daisy low— Transported with Compassion That such a Doll should grow