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Whole Gulfs– of Red, and Fleets… And Crews– of solid Blood – Did place upon the West– Tonight… As ’twere specific Ground - And They– appointed Creatures –
The spider holds a Silver Ball In unperceived Hands— And dancing softly to Himself His Yarn of Pearl—unwinds— He plies from Nought to Nought—
My life closed twice before its cl… It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me So huge, so hopeless to conceive
132 I bring an unaccustomed wine To lips long parching Next to mine, And summon them to drink;
90 Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered thro’ the village—
461 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 a Brid…
How slow the Wind - how slow the sea - how late their Fathers be!
800 Two—were immortal twice— The privilege of few— Eternity—obtained—in Time— Reversed Divinity’—
488 Myself was formed’—a Carpenter’— An unpretending time My Plane’—and I, together wrought Before a Builder came’—
LIX I TOOK my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold.
405 It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness— I’m so accustomed to my Fate— Perhaps the Other—Peace—
199 I’m “wife”—I’ve finished that— That other state— I’m Czar—I’m “Woman” now— It’s safer so—
XIX PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.
A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind. The vane a little to the east
383 Exhiliration—is within— There can no Outer Wine So royally intoxicate As that diviner Brand