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367 Over and over, like a Tune— The Recollection plays— Drums off the Phantom Battlements Cornets of Paradise—
59 A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard—
116 I had some things that I called m… And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities.
97 The rainbow never tells me That gust and storm are by, Yet is she more convincing Than Philosophy.
351 I felt my life with both my hands To see if it was there— I held my spirit to the Glass, To prove it possibler—
648 Promise This—When You be Dying— Some shall summon Me— Mine belong Your latest Sighing— Mine—to Belt Your Eye—
326 I cannot dance upon my Toes’— No Man instructed me’— But oftentimes, among my mind, A Glee possesseth me,
Not Sickness stains the Brave, Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, But an adjourning Heart -
“Heaven” has different Signs—to m… Sometimes, I think that Noon Is but a symbol of the Place— And when again, at Dawn, A mighty look runs round the Worl…
Me! Come! My dazzled face In such a shining place! Me! Hear! My foreign ear The sounds of welcome near! The saints shall meet
138 Pigmy seraphs—gone astray— Velvet people from Vevay— Balles from some lost summer day— Bees exclusive Coterie—
100 A science—so the Savants say, “Comparative Anatomy”— By which a single bone— Is made a secret to unfold
Part One: Life LII VICTORY comes late, And is held low to freezing lips Too rapt with frost
532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—
879 Each Second is the last Perhaps, recalls the Man Just measuring unconsciousness The Sea and Spar between.