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XL I NEVER lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod; Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!
695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—
158 Dying! Dying in the night! Won’t somebody bring the light So I can see which way to go Into the everlasting snow?
Epigram THIS is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,— The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty.
223 I Came to buy a smile—today— But just a single smile— The smallest one upon your face Will suit me just as well—
9 Through lane it lay—through brambl… Through clearing and through wood— Banditti often passed us Upon the lonely road.
The heart asks pleasure first And then, excuse from pain– And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep;
122 A something in a summer’s Day As slow her flambeaux burn away Which solemnizes me. A something in a summer’s noon—
Good night! which put the candle o… A jealous zephyr, not a doubt. Ah! friend, you little knew How long at that celestial wick The angels labored diligent;
You love the Lord—you cannot see— You write Him—every day— A little note—when you awake— And further in the Day. An Ample Letter—How you miss—
406 Some’—Work for Immortality’— The Chiefer part, for Time’— He’—Compensates’—immediately’— The former’—Checks’—on Fame’—
972 Unfulfilled to Observation— Incomplete—to Eye— But to Faith—a Revolution In Locality—
12 The morns are meeker than they wer… The nuts are getting brown— The berry’s cheek is plumper— The Rose is out of town.
672 The Future—never spoke— Nor will He—like the Dumb— Reveal by sign—a syllable Of His Profound To Come—
273 He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap— And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up—