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867 Escaping backward to perceive The Sea upon our place— Escaping forward, to confront His glittering Embrace—
GLEE! the great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation!
775 If Blame be my side’—forfeit Me’— But doom me not to forfeit Thee’— To forfeit Thee? The very name Is sentence from Belief’—and Hous…
238 Kill your Balm—and its Odors bles… Bare your Jessamine—to the storm— And she will fling her maddest per… Haply—your Summer night to Charm—
817 Given in Marriage unto Thee Oh thou Celestial Host— Bride of the Father and the Son Bride of the Holy Ghost.
407 If What we could—were what we wou… Criterion—be small— It is the Ultimate of Talk— The Impotence to Tell—
97 The rainbow never tells me That gust and storm are by, Yet is she more convincing Than Philosophy.
I SHOULD have been too glad, I… Too lifted for the scant degree Of life’s penurious round; My little circuit would have shame… This new circumference, have blame…
742 Four Trees—upon a solitary Acre— Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action— Maintain—
After great pain a formal feeling… The nerves sit ceremonious like to… The stiff Heart questions—was it… And yesterday—or centuries before? The feet, mechanical, go round
59 A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard—
Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee,
938 Fairer through Fading—as the Day Into the Darkness dips away— Half Her Complexion of the Sun— Hindering—Haunting—Perishing—
43 Could live—did live— Could die—did die— Could smile upon the whole Through faith in one he met not,
924 Love—is that later Thing than Dea… More previous—than Life— Confirms it at its entrance—And Usurps it—of itself—