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975 The Mountain sat upon the Plain In his tremendous Chair— His observation omnifold, His inquest, everywhere—
834 Before He comes we weigh the Time… ’Tis Heavy and ’tis Light. When He depart, an Emptiness Is the prevailing Freight.
The day came slow, till five o’clo… Then sprang before the hills, Like hindered rubies, or the light… A sudden musket spills. The purple could not keep the east…
716 The Day undressed—Herself— Her Garter—was of Gold— Her Petticoat—of Purple plain— Her Dimities—as old
44 If she had been the Mistletoe And I had been the Rose— How gay upon your table My velvet life to close—
772 The hallowing of Pain Like hallowing of Heaven, Obtains at a corporeal cost— The Summit is not given
113 Our share of night to bear— Our share of morning— Our blank in bliss to fill Our blank in scorning—
808 So set its Sun in Thee What Day be dark to me— What Distance—far— So I the Ships may see
731 “I want”—it pleaded—All its life— I want—was chief it said When Skill entreated it—the last— And when so newly dead—
387 The sweetest Heresy received That Man and Woman know— Each Other’s Convert— Though the Faith accommodate but…
289 I know some lonely Houses off the… A Robber’d like the look of— Wooden barred, And Windows hanging low,
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—
902 The first Day that I was a Life I recollect it—How still— That last Day that I was a Life I recollect it—as well—
It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my mind; Yet blamed the fate that fractured…
151 Mute thy Coronation— Meek my Vive le roi, Fold a tiny courtier In thine Ermine, Sir,