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Of so divine a Loss We enter but the Gain, Indemnity for Loneliness That such a Bliss has been.
532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—
There’s been a death in the opposi… As lately as to-day. I know it by the numb look Such houses have alway. The neighbors rustle in and out,
A Day! Help! Help! Another Day! Your prayers, oh Passer by! From such a common ball as this Might date a Victory! From marshallings as simple
727 Precious to Me—She still shall be… Though She forget the name I bear… The fashion of the Gown I wear— The very Color of My Hair—
As from the earth the light Ballo… Asks nothing but release - Ascension that for which it was, Its soaring Residence. The spirit looks upon the Dust
506 He touched me, so I live to know That such a day, permitted so, I groped upon his breast— It was a boundless place to me
I saw the wind within her I knew it blew for me '— But she must buy my shelter I asked Humility
273 He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap— And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up—
286 That after Horror — that ’twas us… That passed the mouldering Pier — Just as the Granite Crumb let go… Our Savior, by a Hair —
474 They put Us far apart— As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula— We signified “These see”—
They dropped like flakes, they dro… Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the lune A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless gras…
In snow thou comest - Thou shalt go with the resuming gr… The sweet derision of the crow, And Glee’s advancing sound. In fear thou comest -
LXI EACH life converges to some cent… Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal,
801 I play at Riches—to appease The Clamoring for Gold— It kept me from a Thief, I think, For often, overbold