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14 One Sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There’s only one recorded, But both belong to me.
Proud of my broken heart, since th… Proud of the pain, I did not feel… Proud of my night, since thou, wit… Not to partake thy passion, –my hu… Thou can’st not boast, like Jesus…
366 Although I put away his life— An Ornament too grand For Forehead low as mine, to wear… This might have been the Hand
The Sea said 'Come’ to the Brook… The Brook said 'Let me grow’ - The Sea said 'Then you will be a… I want a Brook - Come now’! The Sea said 'Go’ to the Sea -
806 A Planted Life—diversified With Gold and Silver Pain To prove the presence of the Ore In Particles—'tis when
907 Till Death’—is narrow Loving’— The scantest Heart extant Will hold you till your privilege Of Finiteness’—be spent’—
212 Least Rivers—docile to some sea. My Caspian—thee.
To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise
A darting fear—a pomp—a tear— A waking on a morn To find that what one waked for, Inhales the different dawn.
562 Conjecturing a Climate Of unsuspended Suns— Adds poignancy to Winter— The Shivering Fancy turns
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry....
679 Conscious am I in my Chamber, Of a shapeless friend— He doth not attest by Posture— Nor Confirm—by Word—
199 I’m “wife”'—I’ve finished that’— That other state’— I’m Czar’—I’m “Woman” now’— It’s safer so’—
46 I keep my pledge. I was not called— Death did not notice me. I bring my Rose.